Abcl: Abc music notation with rich chord support (Short Paper)

Almeida, José João

doi:10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.8

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Abc music notation
domain specific language

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It is well known the relevance of accompany chords but there is a lack of tools capable of automatically generating sound from them. In this paper we describe a domain specific language (Abcl) aimed to be a prototyping environment for new experimental music operators. Currently Abcl: (1) adds support for accompany chords (chordmode, instruments, chord-lines); (2) adds clearer support for percussion (drums, drum-machine) (3) adds a support for variables and functions. Abcl tool is a syntactic-preprocessor that produces Abc. The DSLToolkit, used to create Abcl, is also briefly presented and discussed in the paper.

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José João Almeida. Abcl: Abc music notation with rich chord support (Short Paper). In 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 62, pp. 8:1-8:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.8

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José João Almeida

Departamento de Informática / Centro Algoritmi, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

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