Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Shann
erich.e...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Byzantine chant and microtones To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: aanlktiky6cut8ehudjqffz_w6a-0kwmbfrs8lf5xy...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If you like, you might start using staff notation alone: there are similar

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Nov 2010, at 18:47, Erich Enke wrote: Thank you for the pointers. Since translation to Western notation remains a goal of mine, it would make sense to develop the staff notation. The responses were encouraging enough that I'll begin looking into implementing this in lilypond. I have

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-11 Thread Hans Aberg
On 6 Nov 2010, at 03:33, Erich Enke wrote: I just happened across a Sept 2010 post on lilypond-devel regarding microtones. It reminded me how I've been wanting to work on Byzantine notation support for lilypond. I would love to have a tool that could actually transcribe between western and

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-11 Thread Erich Enke
If you like, you might start using staff notation alone: there are similar scales in oriental (Persian/Arab/Turkish) music. One then introduces some microtonal accidentals. I have looked through some Byzantine scales, and can see more or less how to do it. You might use E72 or E53, the

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-11 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Nov 2010, at 18:47, Erich Enke wrote: If you like, you might start using staff notation alone: there are similar scales in oriental (Persian/Arab/Turkish) music. One then introduces some microtonal accidentals. I have looked through some Byzantine scales, and can see more or less

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-09 Thread Erich Patrick Enke
http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/Vespers/b2100_Lord_I_have_cried.pdf Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2010, at 15:00, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Erich Enke erich.e...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I hope you found that brief survey to be

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-09 Thread Erich Patrick Enke
Apologies. I didn't mean to send that last one. What I meant to say was: Yes please. You can feel free to copy paste that email to where it needs to be. A prime example of Byzantine notation in modern use can be found here:

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Erich Patrick Enke erich.e...@gmail.com wrote: What I meant to say was: Yes please.  You can feel free to copy paste that email to where it needs to be.  A prime example of Byzantine notation in modern use can be found here:

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Erich Enke erich.e...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I hope you found that brief survey to be interesting, at least, and I look forward to what advice you might have to offer. Thanks for this detailed description, it looks quite interesting! Although I don't have any

Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 6 Nov 2010, at 03:33, Erich Enke wrote: I just happened across a Sept 2010 post on lilypond-devel regarding microtones. It reminded me how I've been wanting to work on Byzantine notation support for lilypond. I would love to have a tool that could actually transcribe between western and

Byzantine chant and microtones

2010-11-05 Thread Erich Enke
Hi all, I just happened across a Sept 2010 post on lilypond-devel regarding microtones. It reminded me how I've been wanting to work on Byzantine notation support for lilypond. I would love to have a tool that could actually transcribe between western and Byzantine notation, and produce midis.