ECOLM - An Electronic Corpus of Lute Music
Basic TabCode - others
Remaining elements of basic TabCode can be divided into:
Time signatures and mensuration signs
Time signature indicators are introduced in TabCode with an
M and are enclosed in parentheses. Time signatures and
mensuration signs may be seen as being constructed from a small set
of basic symbols. Firstly, there are integers, most familiar in the
classical number over number format (i.e. 3/4, etc.) and, secondly,
there are C shapes (represented in TabCode as C), backwards C
shapes (represented as D) and circles (O).
These latter, mensural notation signs may be modified by the addition of
a central dot or a slash (represented in TabCode as . and
/ respectively and following immediately after their
symbols.
These symbols may appear on their own in a source:
In which case, the TabCode would simply be M(3), or they
may appear one above the other:
In which case, both the symbols are given and separated by
:, the above example being coded as M(C.:3)
In cases where symbols are consecutive, the form is the same, with
the colon replaced by a semicolon - M(C.;3)
Barlines
| | Normal barline |
|| |
Double barline |
|: or ||: |
Right-handed repeat bar/double bar |
:| or :|| |
Simple left-handed repeat bar/double bar |
:|: or :||: |
Double-sided repeat bar/double bar |
|= | Dashed barline |
|0 | Non-counting barline |
|=0 | Non-counting dashed barline |
First and second time bars are part of the full TabCode. Details on these may be found here.
System and page breaks
A system break is encoded as {^} and a page break as
{>}
{^}
Comments
Comments or any other text that does not fall within the main TabCode
notation system should be placed between curly brackets: { }.
Because some comment material is parsed (e.g. System and page breaks), it is recommended that comments consist only of to alphanumeric characters and basic punctuation (commas and full stops).