On Tuesday, September 20, 2011, [email protected] wrote:
> I teach music to children using a color scheme to make it more fun and > easy to grasp. Would it be possible to have an option to display notes > in a custom color schema in a future version of Rosegarden? It is a > common enough technique to teach this way. > > My version is outlined at http://sites.google.com/site/musicbycolor/ > (requires a browser that supports HTML5 - like Firefox). It turns out I do find this idea interesting, but I couldn't get through everything this little undertaking would require without turning it into my life's work. There are many things to consider here. The easier (for me) class of problems involve the mechanics of drawing colored notes, and the mechanics of putting together some new mechanism for reading in and encapsulating a set of rules for how to draw what. These are both areas where I already have considerable hands-on experience and could jump in fairly easily. The harder problems involve deciding how to format the raw data, the minimum amount of data necessary for making everything happen (eg. we could probably encapsulate all of this based around C and then transform it some way or other to derive everything else), and most particularly the business end of determining exactly which rules apply in what situation. I know practically nothing about modes, scales, or any of that theory 101 stuff, and I'd just be forever trying to work out that since we know this pitch is the iii in the Lydian mode, we're going to color it orange. This is way too involved for me to think about getting done on my own, but if we had the right confluence of talents from a few other people interested in seeing this through, I could definitely help, and would almost certainly be interested in joining in. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
