Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for all replies. I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur for 2 notes? In the first case Werner's guess may be correct (a

Re: Special symbols for Blues harp (german: Mundharmonika)

2011-02-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Frank Weichert wrote: I'm looking for special symbols used for harp-notation You could try following up Mario's TabSymbols font http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=252.0 And for a possible markup approach and some discussion, see

Re: Special symbols for Blues harp (german: Mundharmonika)

2011-02-19 Thread M Watts
On 02/19/2011 04:58 AM, frank.weich...@lpp-pfullingen.de wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for special symbols used for harp-notation (german: Mundharmonika). Like fingering for keybords, harps needs special symbols for chanel-number and blow and reverse blow, Shift (chromatic one only). There are

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:00 PM Subject: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/19 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for all replies. I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur for 2 notes? In the first

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, um 16:31:36 schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2011/2/19 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the slurs might be a playing instruction for them. Maybe, i must ask the composer. Should a dashed slur be used in such

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/19 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, um 16:31:36 schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2011/2/19 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the slurs might be a playing instruction for them. Maybe, i must ask

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com Maybe, i must ask the composer. Should a dashed slur be used in such a case? Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers -- Phil Holmes attachment:

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread madMuze
... The only thing i can come up with is that he wants the notes to be sung legato, so maybe it would be best to simply write legato above notes? ... Perhaps the composer wants portamento here, not simply legato. If so, I'd be inclined (as others have suggested) to use phrasing slurs to

Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer. Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? -- Phil Holmes ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:47:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer. Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? It's on the old webpages, and one of the things I've had in the back of my mind that we might want to integrate into the new docs+web.

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer. Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? http://lilypond.org/web/about/name ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Lo and behold, another example from the Gondoliers This slur has an exact meaning: It's a portato. You can find this kind of notation in virtually all scores from the 19th century, including both German (e.g. Wagner) and Italian (e.g. Verdi) composers. Werner

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur for 2 notes? Wearing my singers' coach hat, I'd say that the slurs have two meanings: . They indicate a long first note and a shorter second

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/19 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? http://lilypond.org/web/about/name And the thread starting at

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.comwrote: On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer. Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? http://lilypond.org/web/about/name Telling your wife

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:47:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? It's on the old webpages, and one of the things I've had in the

lilypond-book

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Buhr
I'm attempting to use lilypond-book but have run into the following anomaly. The latex file below demonstrates the problem. There is a line \input{test.ind} to include the index file generated by the makeindex command. Normal procedure is to start with an empty (0 byte) xxx.ind file, do several

Re: Lilypond Band Score

2011-02-19 Thread Thomas
Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org writes: Does anyone know how to create a full score and individual parts for a concert band? This would be very helpful to me. There should be a template for that in the documentation! `Should'? Boy, the documentation already has more than 1000 pages!

Re: Lilypond Band Score

2011-02-19 Thread Thomas Wilmot
Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Thomas thomas-wilmot at hotmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to create a full score and individual parts for a concert band? This would be very helpful to me. There should be a template for that in the

TextSpanner listener text scheme

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
Where does TextSpanner hide its text? I'm trying to extract the text (i.e. II or IV) from a TextSpanner. I've realized that it isn't part of the text-spanner-event (sob), but as far as I can tell, it's not in the TextSpanner context either! What am I missing? example attached and inline (it's

Re: Lilypond Band Score

2011-02-19 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Thomas thomas-wil...@hotmail.com wrote: Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org writes: Does anyone know how to create a full score and individual parts for a concert band? This would be very helpful to me. There should be a template for that in the documentation!

Re: TextSpanner listener text scheme

2011-02-19 Thread -Eluze
Graham Percival-3 wrote: Where does TextSpanner hide its text? I'm trying to extract the text (i.e. II or IV) from a TextSpanner. I've realized that it isn't part of the text-spanner-event (sob), but as far as I can tell, it's not in the TextSpanner context either! i found it int the

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
Dear all, thank you for your answers. I think i'll use explicit notation for clarity's sake, especially because it doesn't take much space in this case and composer asked for it. 2011/2/19 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: - Original Message - From: Janek Warchoł

Re: TextSpanner listener text scheme

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:59:31PM -0800, -Eluze wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: Where does TextSpanner hide its text? I'm trying to extract the i found it int the Voice context: Woah, thanks! That works! Thank you so much! I'm even more puzzled, because I didn't need that for any

Prevent Repeats in Ossia

2011-02-19 Thread Bobby Smith
I am trying to create an ossia that is above a measure with repeats. Is it possible to prevent the repeats from appearing in the ossia but at the same time, preserve the bar lines and prevent the staves from extending past the last bar? Here is a a code snippet that demonstrates... \version

99 bottles of beer on the wall

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
Wow. Brilliant work here: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lilypond-1351.html (I was doing a google search for lilypond music function, because I couldn't remember the exact syntax, and this popped up) Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, -Original Message- From: Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:06:12 +0100 To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net, davidandrewrog...@gmail.com, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net, Francisco Vila

Re: engraving question - temporary voices in vocal music

2011-02-19 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-02-18 01:00 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, i have a SATB choral piece and occasionally some voices are split in two. If the rhythyms differ, a polyphonic notation must be used - that's obvious. But, what to do in the situation pictured in the problem.png attachment? Is the notation used

Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

2011-02-19 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-02-19 02:45 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Janek Warchołlemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.comlemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for all replies. I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it... Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing

Re: 99 bottles of beer on the wall

2011-02-19 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Wow.  Brilliant work here: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lilypond-1351.html Pretty cool!  I wonder if the number lookups could be simplified with the  'r' format spec? (use-modules (ice-9 format))

Re: 99 bottles of beer on the wall

2011-02-19 Thread Ben Finney
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Wow. Brilliant work here: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lilypond-1351.html That is impressive. It's a good demonstration of LilyPond's support for lyrics. I wonder if it could be done with the verses under *the same staff*, with

Beaming eighth notes in threes in 3/4 time

2011-02-19 Thread Nick Payne
Shouldn't this example have the notes in the second bar beamed three together and three together? What I'm getting is three, then one, then two: \version 2.13.50 \relative c' { \time 3/4 c8 c c c c c \set beamExceptions = #'((end . (((1 . 8) . (3 3) c c c c c c } Nick

QQQ Purim songs in four part harmony

2011-02-19 Thread dadadharma @dslextreme.com
Any singers out there who know of a good song for Purim that can be sung in four-part harmony? Out-of-copyright is preferred. I want to set it in Lilypond sing with my group. david olson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Beaming eighth notes in threes in 3/4 time

2011-02-19 Thread Keith OHara
Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net writes: Shouldn't this example have the notes in the second bar beamed three together and three together? I think it should. For now, you can add a line \version 2.13.50 [...] \set Timing.beatStructure = #'(3)