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∂26-Jul-83 1715 tsao@ISL
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Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 1983 17:17-PDT
To: Leland Smith <LCS at SU-AI>
In-reply-to: Your message of 26 Jul 83 1528 PDT.
From: tsao at ISL
Thanks for your detailed reply to my question on the Commodore.
I certainly will take up your offer after I come back from vacation (Aug 12).
Incidentally, I also asked you whether or not the Versatec at CCRMA is
in any shape to be used by us, and whether you've perfected your justifying
routines for the input of orchestral scores (so that we can forego using
dummy staves). If so, we can start inputting my MA project. What are
the commands like?
∂25-Jul-83 1016 tsao@ISL Miscellaneous
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Date: Monday, 25 Jul 1983 10:18-PDT
To: lcs at SAIL
Subject: Miscellaneous
From: tsao at ISL
I saw the Commodore Vic-20 selling at Gemco for $87. I seem to recall
that you used to rave about that thing. The Vic-64 is also on sale there for
about $199. What do you think as far as the prices are concerned? Are they
reliable?
Also, is the Versatec at CCRMA fixed? Can we operate it without your
help? If so, what are the commands?
Before we start inputting my MA project, we would like to know whether
your justifying routines for scores work. Then, we wouldn't have to use dummy
lines. If they work, can you tell us what the relevant commands are?
∂24-Jul-83 1448 HYS perforated paper
What's the story behind this perforated paper in the VRN?? It makes the
VRN absolutely useless for hard copy. Sorry to seem a bit edgy, but with
my days as numbered as they are, I'm getting into a bind to get error-free
copies of my MS manuscripts.
∂02-Jul-83 2058 HYS perc. symbols
I have now copied on [1,LCS] all of my code 11 library, to wit: PERC.DMD,
CRLN.DMD, and CRS.DMD. Also PICT.MS. Unfortunately, I have no time at
the moment to write documentation on them; suffice to know that those files
are needed to read any of my music I've put on the system.
If any future musicologists wants to know which pieces of mine are buried
in my area on MUSIC5, here is the list:
Promenade (1978), for trombone and perc.
Four Poems on Springtime (1980), for mezzo and chamber orch.
Conjunct Motion (1980), for cl. fg. cor. cb. pfte.
Voyages (1981), for 'cello and strings
Scherzo fantasque (1981), for violin and piano
"Hot ice and wondrous strange snow" (1982), for organ solo
Diurne (1982), for piano four-hands
Dream-troupe (1983), for 'cello and piano
Parts have been extracted wherever relevant.
I'm not at all sure how graceful a clean-up job I'll be able to do before
I leave for good. Certainly I'm the only person who can find anything in
my area. If MS ever gets available elsewhere, I hope to be able to get back
at all of those files in some form.
One more piece on the list:
Intermezzo (1971, rev. 1981), for full orch.
∂22-Jun-83 1425 LCS at CCRMA
Date: 22 Jun 1983 1308-PDT
From: Leland Smith <LCS at CCRMA>
To: LCS at SU-AI
G9: MOVE RZ,.COMM. ;IF(R2.LE.900..AND.R2.NE.RN(L+2))GO TO GX
CAMG RZ,[900.0] ; SET R2=999 TO LOOK AT ALL STAVES
CAMN RZ,1(R) ;IF(R2.NE.RN(L+2))GO TO GX
SKIPA
JRST GX
MOVE A,2(R) ;RN(L+3) IS IN A
CAML A,.COMM.+5 ;R4 *** CAML A,RR4 ;R4
CAMLE A,.COMM.+6 ;R5 *** CAMLE A,RR4+1
JRST G2 ;9 IF(OUTLIM(R4,R5,RN(L+3)))GO TO 2
LIM: AOJ J, ; IN LIMITS?
∂20-Jun-83 2224 LCS at CCRMA
Date: 20 Jun 1983 2217-PDT
From: Leland Smith <LCS at CCRMA>
To: LCS at SU-AI
IF(I1.EQ.LEL)GO TO 680
C L = LEFT, LP=LIGHT PEN, LI=LINE UP VERTICALLY
IF(I1.EQ.LJJ)GO TO 1770
C J = JUSTIFY JT=JUSTIFY TEXT JV=JUSTIFY VERTICALLY
680 IF(I1.EQ.LEE)GO TO 690
C ABOVE FOR 'ED' (WITH LIGHT PEN)
IF(I2.NE.LII)GO TO 685
C *** LI = LINE UP ALL STAVES BASED ON STAFF 0
IF(X22.NE.0)GO TO 130
CAN'T DO IT IF IN EDIT MODE
CALL MSSET(1)
C THE 1 IN MSSET BECOMES 1*8-1=7 (FOR STAVES 0-7)
CC CALL MSSET(R2,R4,R5,1,ITEM,NO,P,RHYX)
GO TO 1320
685 IF(X22.EQ.0)GO TO 130
!
1770 IF(I2.EQ.IBLA)GO TO 1780
IF(I2.EQ.LDD)GO TO 1060
C NOW 'CD', WHEN NOT IN EDIT MODE = CENTER ALL DASHES ON A LINE. (USES GRED)
RD=43
C NEXT FOR ME=MENO=81 MOLTO=90 CRESC.=70 MP=43 MF=50, ALSO 'MACRO'
IF(I2.EQ.LAA)GO TO 2400
IF(I2.EQ.LFF)RD=50
IF(I2.EQ.LOH)RD=90
IF(I2.EQ.LEE)RD=81
IF(I2.EQ.LRR)RD=70
IF(I2.EQ.LTT)GO TO 1780
CCRMA IF(I2.NE.LTT)GO TO 880
C JT=JUSTIFY TEXT (ONLY 1 STAFF AT A TIME)
IF(I2.NE.LVV)GO TO 880
IF(X22.NE.0)GO TO 260
C JV=JUSTIFY STAVES VERTICALLY (IN MSSUB.F4)
1775 CALL JUSTAV
GO TO 1320
1780 CALL MOVER
∂06-Jun-83 0135 HYS clean-up and storage
It looks as if I have finished my last significant manuscripting project
before I take off for good, now that I've done both the score and the part
for my new cello-and-piano piece. I certainly would like to show the piece
to you at some point. The piece is definitely vintage Shen.
One thing which I will need to do before leaving is to get everything on
MUSIC5 under [220,HYS] in cold storage, presumably at CCRMA. Please advise
on how to do this. Also, you had advised a while back to make a copy of
[DAT,LCS] on MUSIC5, to be put under [DAT,HYS]. Are those files doing any
good in my area?
Is there any chance that you will have an exportable version of MS under
any form? In that case, maybe I should have a tape copy of MUSIC5:*.*[220,HYS]
to take with me. I will certainly miss your program. Perhaps you could
convince Harvard to set up MS. If it so happens that MS at some point would
be useable on some home machine, I'd certainly would like to hear about it.
It will be very hard to get back to pen-and-ink, especially since I've
started to sketch an orchestration for my 4-hand piece.
∂04-Jun-83 2212 HYS PAGE bug
If you feel like grubbing around MUSIC5, the part extractor runs afoul
DREHC.MS and DREHD.MS [220,HYS]. If you make a control file which reads
DREHC.MS 1 1, and run it through the part extractor for the instrument
CELLO, you'll get an ill mem ref. Running only DREHC or only DREHD does
not cause this problem. Apparently, the problem has to do with the cue
extractor on staff 2 in DREHC. Zeroing P10 for code 2 eliminates the
problem, though it also eliminates the cue. I ended up by doing without
the cue. There may also be some problem with DREMA or DREMB along the
same lines. Somehow, I managed to railroad the entire piece through
(the complete control file is DREAM.).
VRN has run out of paper.
∂14-May-83 2224 HYS MStifying
I was looking for an inverse mordant with a flat on top, and found that you
didn't have one. Ah well; I suppose you have to be a real classicist to
want one of those. I put a flat on top separately.
Why is that, for normal notes, P6← 0 for black notes, and P6← -1 for white
ones, whereas when P4 ← X +200 (for diamond shapes), P6 ←0 for white diamonds,
and P6← -1 for black diamonds?? Unfortunately, there does not seem to be
a nice global command to get all the diamonds the right colour (and believe
it or not, I did find a use for a black diamond!)
Still using MS.OLD for justifying.
I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to using pen and ink again. One project
I'm thinking of is orchestrating my recent 4-hand piece, and choice of paper
format is already a problem in itself. If you can an MS I could use in
Cambridge, I'll never have to worry about pen and ink.
∂10βmay-83 1802 tsao@ISL UNIX to FOONLY tapes
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Date: Tuesday, 10 May 1983 17:53-PDT
To: lcs at SAIL
Subject: UNIX to FOONLY tapes
From: tsao at ISL
I have found a command `dd' on Unix that probably does what you
were told the `copy' command did. However, there are several format
conversions available. I have appended these below. If ebcdic or ibm
format is more suitable for your machine, let me know. Otherwise, I
shall attempt a direct (ascii) copy.
Extract from manual:
conv=ascii convert EBCDIC to ASCII
ebcdic convert ASCII to EBCDIC
ibm slightly different map of ASCII to EBCDIC
The ASCII/EBCDIC conversion tables are taken from the 256
character standard in the CACM Nov, 1968. The `ibm' conver-
sion, while less blessed as a standard, corresponds better
to certain IBM print train conventions. There is no univer-
sal solution.
- tsao
∂02-May-83 0000 HYS Bug in justifying
For a good time, take DREAA.DAT and DREAC.DAT from [220,HYS], read them in MS,
and then justify them. In DREAA, I did J 11 20 200, and in DREAC,
J 11 0 200. Luckily, J did not screw up in MS.OLD. As you can see, I need
to do much to justify my work.
Those files are from my new 'cello-and-piano piece which I hope I can knock
off here before I move. One thing which I hope you will consider some day
is how to extend the end bracket to the 8va sign; you will see the problem
in DREAA. Now that I'm cranking out yet another piece using piano, I am
once again using a lot of 8va bassa; you should really add the O- option
to score input mode. (Even Chopin uses 8va bassa, so I don't think I'm
such a weirdo in writing a lot for that register. I see that you have made
no provision for a 15ma bassa sign at all.)
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