bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) (10/27/88)
From Ted Holden at HTE: I am not aware of any real standard for musical notation in the PC world; I figured the closest thing to a standard was probably the notation of the "play" statement in BASIC language. IBM and numerous other vendors have always bundled BASIC with PC-DOS/MS-DOS and manuals for BASIC should always be within walking distance of a majority of users, certainly no further away than the nearest B.Dalton's store for anyone. The BASIC "play" notation is fairly simple to code and requires no graphics or extra hardware to use. VMUSIC notation is simply that of the BASIC "play" command with a "V" thrown in for voice and notation for tempo removed. Ted Holden HTE
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (11/03/88)
The BASIC Play command is entirely non-standard, non-portable, and doesn't contain enough information for any serious music. Although there is no standard computer notation, you can store your music as MIDI data. Mike Berger Department of Statistics University of Illinois berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu {convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger