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ABC notation, the Glossary

ABC notation is a shorthand form of musical notation for computers.^[1]

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Music notation file formats

Accidental (music)

In musical notation, an accidental is a symbol that indicates an alteration of a given pitch.

Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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ASCII

ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Backus–Naur form

In computer science, Backus–Naur form (BNF or Backus normal form) is a notation used to describe the syntax of programming languages or other formal languages.

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DokuWiki

DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.

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Duration (music)

In music, duration is an amount of time or how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Gregorio (software)

Gregorio is a free and open-source scorewriter computer program especially for Gregorian chant in square notation. ABC notation and Gregorio (software) are music notation file formats.

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GUIDO music notation

GUIDO Music Notation is a computer music notation format designed to logically represent all aspects of music in a manner that is both computer-readable and easily readable by human beings.

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Helmholtz pitch notation

Helmholtz pitch notation is a system for naming musical notes of the Western chromatic scale.

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Letter notation

In music, letter notation is a system of representing a set of pitches, for example, the notes of a scale, by letters.

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LilyPond

LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. ABC notation and LilyPond are music notation file formats.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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List of music software

This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music.

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List of musical symbols

Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed.

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Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker,Magnus Manske's announcement of "PHP Wikipedia", wikipedia-l, August 24, 2001 after which it has been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs.

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MoinMoin

MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine.

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Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.

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Musical note

In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music.

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MusiXTeX

MusiXTeX is a suite of open source music engraving macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX, released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.

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Numbered musical notation

The numbered musical notation (not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and to some extent in Japan, Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and English-speaking Canada.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Ornament (music)

In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.

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Palm OS

Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.

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PmWiki

PmWiki is a wiki-based, WikiMatrix.

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A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

Also known as .abc (music notation), ABC (musical notation), ABC-notation, Abc music notation, Chris Walshaw.

ABC notation, the Glossary

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Music notation file formats

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