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| 16 | If there is only one voice, specifying <I>place</I> for a phrase just tells |
| 17 | Mup where to draw the phrase mark. If there are |
| 18 | <A HREF="param.html#vscheme">two or more voices,</A> |
| 19 | and a <I>place</I> is specified, "above" |
| 20 | indicates to Mup that the phrase is associated with voice 1, |
| 21 | and "below" indicates to Mup that the phrase is associated with voice 2. |
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| 24 | If no <I>place</I> is specified and there is only one voice with notes, |
| 25 | Mup will decide which side would be better based on the musical data. |
| 26 | This means the phrase mark may come out above or below. |
| 27 | In the case where there are two voices and |
| 28 | there are notes present in both voices, phrase marks will be drawn both |
| 29 | above and below. |
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| 32 | Each phrase statement item must include a begintime and duration. |
| 33 | A phrase mark must begin and end on a chord, so Mup first takes the begintime |
| 34 | and duration and finds the chords nearest to each of them. It then draws a |
| 35 | phrase mark between them, shaping it to be out of the way of other things as |
| 36 | much as possible. |
| 37 | It is possible to specify a "grace back up" on the begintime |
| 38 | (a negative number in parentheses, |
| 39 | specifying how many grace notes to back up), |
| 40 | to make the phrase include leading grace notes. |
| 41 | It is possible to "nest" phrase marks (i.e., have one phrase on a subset of |
| 42 | the chords of another phrase). |
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| 44 | <P> |
| 45 | Some examples: |
| 46 | <BR><PRE> |
| 47 | staff 2 |
| 48 | vscheme=2o |
| 49 | |
| 50 | music |
| 51 | |
| 52 | 1: d;f;a;b; |
| 53 | 2,3 1: a;f;d;g; |
| 54 | 2 2: 4.c;8b-;4d;g; |
| 55 | phrase 1: 1 til 4; |
| 56 | phrase above 2,3: 1 til 2; 3 til 4; |
| 57 | phrase below 2: 2.5 til 1m + 1.5; |
| 58 | bar |
| 59 | 1: b;c+;d+;e+; |
| 60 | 2,3 1: g;a;f;c; |
| 61 | 2 2: 4.e;8f;4b-;g; |
| 62 | bar |
| 63 | </PRE><BR> |
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| 67 | Phrase marks are sometimes used on |
| 68 | tablature staffs in conjunction with slides. |
| 69 | <BR><PRE> |
| 70 | score staffs=2 |
| 71 | staff 2 stafflines=tab |
| 72 | music |
| 73 | |
| 74 | 2: a3<>;a4;e4<>;e2; |
| 75 | phrase above 2: 1 til 2; 3 til 4; |
| 76 | bar |
| 77 | </PRE><BR> |
| 78 | <IMG SRC="mugex74.gif" ALT="Picture of Mup output"><BR> |
| 79 | </P> |
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| 81 | The word "phrase" can be preceded by a line type modifier: dotted or dashed. |
| 82 | The dotted or dashed styles might be used for phrase marks |
| 83 | that were added by an editor rather than the composer, or to show a phrase |
| 84 | that doesn't apply to all verses. |
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