Re: Intended use of the empty chord <> construct

Trevor Bača writes: > I recently discovered the empty chord <> construct. From some initial > tests, it looks like <> might solve a small handful of very difficult > spanner-termination cases I've been wrestling with for years. > > Before I go further, I'd like to check my

Intended use of the empty chord <> construct

Hi, I recently discovered the empty chord <> construct. From some initial tests, it looks like <> might solve a small handful of very difficult spanner-termination cases I've been wrestling with for years. Before I go further, I'd like to check my understanding of <> and how it works: 1. Is <>

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> Try . Look how Frans > Brüggen is not just working with his fingers but also with his cheeks > (and deduce what he is doing with his breath) and mouth and recorder > angle. Thankyou signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Intervals enharmony question

J Martin Rushton writes: > Have a listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcI8KV4ftCk and then > tell me the recorder isn't a serious instrument. Try . Look how Frans Brüggen is not just working with his fingers but

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 01/05/18 10:08, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 1 May 2018, at 11:00, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Hans Åberg writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup wrote: Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school

Re: Setting up custom scale and accidentals

Hi delboh, Your custom accidental does not show up because it's not contained in the current notation font (i.e. Emmentaler). You can't access it in markup via \musicglyph "tsGlyph", so it won't be printed in music. *Solution:* The standard stencil for accidentals

Setting up custom scale and accidentals

Dear all, I am attempting to set up a custom scale that includes using custom accidental glyphs. Based on the makam.ly example I am pretty much there and can display the existing accidental glyphs as needed. The attached extract from my file shows my problem; I am able to

Re: FOMUS Lilypond Staccatissimo problem

Jorge Eduardo Gomez Elizondo writes: > Hello! > > I am using Lilypond via SuperCollider and FOMUS, and have noticed a > problem that I didn't have previously, in which a Staccatissimo, > represented in FOMUS as [!] is translated into Lilypond as: > > ees'8~ \bRiii

Re: spacer rest *

David Wright writes: > … which of course it should, if only to say that such whitespace > is optional and not preferred. That would make it is clearer that > c4 d e f > 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 > defines only 11 notes. The NR should be a reference for definitions > like

Re: spacer rest *

On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:45:47 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 1 May 2018 at 09:39, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > > > --- Exceptions --- > > > Making "s8 8 8" acting differently than "c8 8 8" introduce an > > > exception. > >

Re: spacer rest *

On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:15:31 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 00:15:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > >> David Wright writes: > >> > >> > AFAICT the important exception that was introduced with

Re: 1.4.2 Clickable examples

On 5/1/2018 11:27 AM, Freeman Gilmore wrote: No Clicking gives two options open and save  (and cancel) Open does nothing. Save then "open" give all the formatting information; or "open with" Lilypond the file open and closes in DOS window.   (I have two Lilypond choices to "open with" one does

Re: 1.4.2 Clickable examples

No Clicking gives two options open and save (and cancel) Open does nothing. Save then "open" give all the formatting information; or "open with" Lilypond the file open and closes in DOS window. (I have two Lilypond choices to "open with" one does nothing the other does the open and close stated

Re: FOMUS Lilypond Staccatissimo problem

From: Jorge Eduardo Gomez Elizondo Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 3:05 AM To: Subject: FOMUS Lilypond Staccatissimo problem the problem is: c'4-| should be c'4-! Anyone else out there still using FOMUS? This is apparently a FOMUS

Re: 1.4.2 Clickable examples

On 5/1/2018 10:45 AM, Freeman Gilmore wrote: I have windows 10 Reference; _Learning Manual v2.18.2   HTML_ __1.4.2 Clickable examples Would some one please explain how to do this in detail? I hace tried open, save, and open in the download file. I have seen it flash open than close after it

1.4.2 Clickable examples

I have windows 10 Reference; *Learning Manual v2.18.2 HTML* 1.4.2 Clickable examples Would some one please explain how to do this in detail? I hace tried open, save, and open in the download file. I have seen it flash open than close after it completed printing. And depending on how I open

FOMUS Lilypond Staccatissimo problem

Hello! I am using Lilypond via SuperCollider and FOMUS, and have noticed a problem that I didn't have previously, in which a Staccatissimo, represented in FOMUS as [!] is translated into Lilypond as: ees'8~ \bRiii ees'32[ \bLii c'16.~] c'8~ \bRiii c'32[-. \bLiii \bRii ees'32-. \bLii

Re: spacer rest *

On 5/1/18 3:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Let me quote the documentation on this: Isolated durations – durations without a pitch – that occur within a music sequence will take their pitch from the preceding note or chord. \relative { \time 8/1 c'' \longa \breve 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 128 }

Re: Another Figured Bass problem

Hi Harm, Thank you for this enormous collection of possibilities and code for displaying BC-figures. I may not live long enough to put all of it in practice but for my present purpose it is more than sufficient. On the topic of Figured Bass in LilyPond I still have some other desires, to be

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 11:00, David Kastrup wrote: > > Hans Åberg writes: > >>> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup wrote: >>> >>> Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school >>> contexts already. >> >> The recorders

Re: Intervals enharmony question

Hans Åberg writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school >> contexts already. > > The recorders used in schools are an idea from Carl Orff, with the > idea that it is

Re: Making TextLength ignore some notes.

Thank you for your generous reply. I am surprised that you think that newcomers (or anybody else) find the list unwelcoming.  I have always been amazed by the willingness of a few list members to provide detailed replies, and have rarely read anything that appeared to be unwelcoming. I take your

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup wrote: > > Hans Åberg writes: > >>> On 1 May 2018, at 00:42, J Martin Rushton >> >>> For a lot of earlier music it can be difficult to know if "flauto" is a >>> flauto dolce (sweet flute - recorder) or a flauto

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 09:23, Malte Meyn wrote: > > Am 30.04.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Hans Åberg: >>> On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:47, Malte Meyn wrote: >>> >>> Am 30.04.2018 um 21:32 schrieb Hans Åberg: One has to adapt the pitch on every note played,

Re: Intervals enharmony question

Hans Åberg writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 00:42, J Martin Rushton > >> For a lot of earlier music it can be difficult to know if "flauto" is a >> flauto dolce (sweet flute - recorder) or a flauto transvero (sp?). More like flauto traverso. The terminal "o" makes obvious

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 00:42, J Martin Rushton > wrote: > > On 30/04/18 22:14, Hans Åberg wrote: >> >>> On 30 Apr 2018, at 22:50, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Flutes have a very definite pitch, making it hard to play in unison, unlike strings

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 06:27, Shane Brandes wrote: > > Then there is always "what is more out of tune than two flutes? One flute" The pitches are spaced quite unevenly if measured electronically, and the scale will stretch moving upwards, so that has to be mastered.

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 05:34, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:27:10PM +0200, Hans Åberg wrote: >> >>> On 30 Apr 2018, at 22:23, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: >>> >>> Hans Åberg-2 wrote I play the flute, and I checked with one of

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> On 1 May 2018, at 04:53, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > > On 1 May 2018 at 06:27, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> Flutes have a very definite pitch, making it hard to play in unison, unlike >> strings then. It is mentioned in Blatter's book on orchestration. >

Re: spacer rest *

Gianmaria Lari writes: > Absolutely! And the problem is not really when "you see". It's when > "you write". A learnear like me, after discovering the syntax "c4 4 4" will > use with no problem like this: > > d4 c 4 4 > > > discovering that it engraves > > d4 c4 c4 >

Re: spacer rest *

On 1 May 2018 at 09:39, David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > --- Exceptions --- > > Making "s8 8 8" acting differently than "c8 8 8" introduce an > > exception. > > Not "introduces" but "constitutes" since there was never a state with >

Re: spacer rest *

On 1 May 2018 at 05:32, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 00:15:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > > > AFAICT the important exception that was introduced with naked > > > durations was that c 4 notates a

Re: spacer rest *

Gianmaria Lari writes: > --- Exceptions --- > Making "s8 8 8" acting differently than "c8 8 8" introduce an > exception. Not "introduces" but "constitutes" since there was never a state with valid equal behavior. > Exceptions make things a bit "more difficult" and in

Re: spacer rest *

On 1 May 2018 at 00:09, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 22:56:31 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > On 27 April 2018 at 15:44, David Wright > wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > Well, I don't know how the decision was arrived at, but my

Re: Intervals enharmony question

Am 30.04.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Hans Åberg: On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:47, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 30.04.2018 um 21:32 schrieb Hans Åberg: One has to adapt the pitch on every note played, and the reference is typically the string section, which in turn is tuned in

Re: spacer rest *

David Wright writes: > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 00:15:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: >> David Wright writes: >> >> > AFAICT the important exception that was introduced with naked >> > durations was that c 4 notates a single note whereas c4 4