I'm not sure if this is a language problem, or an attitude problem.
Because it seems like you are coming to the opposite interpretation of what
I say, despite me being very detailed in my explanation.


Let's start with the main point:

THE VERTICAL ORDER OF NOTES ON THE PAGE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ORDER OF
THE VOICES WITHIN THE << // // // >> CONSTRUCT, OR WHAT THE VOICE NAMES ARE
CALLED

Do you agree with that?  You should, since it is true.



If so, let's go on the the consequence of this:

IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO NAME IMPLICIT VOICES WITHIN << // // // >> BASED
ON THE VERTICAL ORDER ON WHICH THEY APPEAR ON THE PAGE, SINCE THEIR
VERTICAL ORDER IS NOT FIXED.


Any objections so far?



On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:21 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

> Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> writes:
>
> > On Nov 3, 2016 12:55 PM, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > I wanted to jump in here because in this discussion, a lot of people
> > have
> >> > said or implied things like (paraphrasing) "top to bottom in << // //
> > // >>
> >> > should correspond top to bottom in the score", and suggesting naming
> >> > conventions based on this.
> >> >
> >> > These thoughts, while well-intentioned, are bad since they are
> > misleading
> >> > for this important reason:
> >> >
> >> >      !!! Top to bottom on the staff has precisely nothing to do with
> any
> >> > conventions of << // // // >> !!!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Top to bottom on the staff has ONLY to do with the relative pitches.
> > For
> >> > example, whenever an Alto part goes lower than the Soprano in an SATB
> >> > arrangment, then the staff order (during that voice crossing) from top
> > to
> >> > bottom is ASTB, not SATB.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I don't get your point.  Stem direction and displacements do not
> >> change for voice crossings: that's the sole way to actually recognize
> >> them.
> >
> > Maybe you should read the whole of my post.
> >
> > I think we agree that the vertical order of voices/notes has nothing
> > to do with their stem direction and indentation.
>
> No, we don't agree on that.  The order of voices is not always the same
> as the order of notes, and the order of voices has a whole lot to do
> with their stem direction and indentation: the order of voices does not
> change with voice crossings, and neither does their individual markup.
>

> Which is why any set of names that imply order (like one, two, etc.)
> > are bad choices for the voice names.
>
> I like the numeric identifiers in some of the proposals a bit better
> than the written names since they seem to suggest more of a _property_
> rather than an _identity_ of a voice markup.  That makes it less awkward
> to me in some manner that the numbers for the down-pointing voices are
> assigned from bottom to top.
>


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