From 9d1655ccdc5bb75dd4e3b1212467d23efadce109 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seymour Shlien Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:01:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add files via upload --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4253f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +## abcMIDI package + +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: + +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. + +Seymour added two more programs: + +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. + +The latest version of the abcMIDI package can be found on https://sourceforge.net/projects/abc/ or https://ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/top.html +