Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Hi Harm and thank you for your detailed answer. For some reason, at the first time, I was pretty sure it looked like curved beams... My mistake! Cheers, Pierre Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 19:11, Thomas Morley a écrit : > Am So., 23. Aug. 2020 um 18:39 Uhr schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > > >

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Sure Harm, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YND32HckZqk=1m24s Cheers, Pierre Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 11:02, Thomas Morley a écrit : > Am So., 23. Aug. 2020 um 10:52 Uhr schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > > > Dear Andrew, > > > > Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 08:09, Andrew Bernard > a

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Am So., 23. Aug. 2020 um 10:52 Uhr schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider : > > Dear Andrew, > > Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 08:09, Andrew Bernard a > écrit : > >> I play bass gamba - I've always wanted to do the lovely curved beams >> (and for Bach,. and the lot!). No chance lilypond will ever be able to,

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Dear Andrew, Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 08:09, Andrew Bernard a écrit : I play bass gamba - I've always wanted to do the lovely curved beams > (and for Bach,. and the lot!). No chance lilypond will ever be able to, > I don't think! > I saw Harm (T. Morley) making a short presentation (no details)

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 07:56, Andrew Bernard a écrit : > Hi Pierre, > > Bass gamba in France has very detailed markups, such as poussez (p) and > tirez (t), push and pull (up and down bow), and a whole swag more. I'll > dig up some Marin Marais and send to you. > Thank you Andrew.

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Thank you for the examples. Le dim. 23 août 2020 à 07:59, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : > There are other issues with this music, which can bristle with expressive > marks: bowing and fingering information, various shorthands for different > sorts of ornaments, over and above the placement of

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Hi Alasdair, I play bass gamba - I've always wanted to do the lovely curved beams (and for Bach,. and the lot!). No chance lilypond will ever be able to, I don't think! Andrew

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Hi Pierre, Bass gamba in France has very detailed markups, such as poussez (p) and tirez (t), push and pull (up and down bow), and a whole swag more. I'll dig up some Marin Marais and send to you. Andrew On 23/08/2020 2:35 pm, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Alasdair, I've never seen

Re: Fingering: showing strings by dots?

Hi Alasdair, I've never seen such notation. I'd be curious to see an example. Maybe this could help: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1068 E.g.: \version "2.20.0" #(define-markup-command (circled-pattern layout props radius angle num arg) (number? number? number? markup?)

Fingering: showing strings by dots?

I am trying to typeset some early 18th century French music for viola da gamba. The standard notation, which I would like to keep, is that the string is indicated by a row of dots above the finger number. That is, for example, a 4 with three dots over it (generally in a slight arc, rather than