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+## abcMIDI package
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+abcMIDI is a package of programs written in C for handling abc music notation files. The software was created by James Allwright in the early 1990 and presently maintained by Seymour Shlien. It initially included the following programs:
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+1. abc2midi for converting an abc file to a midi file,
+2. abc2abc for transposing abc notation to another key signature,
+3. midi2abc for creating an abc file from a midi file,
+4. yaps for producing producing a PostScript file displaying the music notation and,
+5. mftext for creating a text representation of a midi file.
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+Seymour added two more programs:
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+1. abcmatch for finding common elements in a collection of abc tunes and,
+2. midicopy for copying parts of a midi file to a new midi file.
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+The latest version of the abcMIDI package can be found on https://sourceforge.net/projects/abc/ or https://ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/top.html
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