Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-12-01 Thread Andrea Valle
Hi Trevor, thanks for sharing your thoughts with such an analytical insight. So, still waiting for the system...:) Really, there are some people interested in this stuff so would be nice to have a wiki or something... Best -a- On 30 Nov 2007, at 18:24, Trevor Bača wrote: Hi Andrea and

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-30 Thread Hans Aberg
On 29 Nov 2007, at 22:18, Andrea Valle wrote: I don't like lisp-like languages. I really prefer OO languages. Haskell http://haskell.org/ is an OO functional language with more working math like syntax (the LISP syntax comes from Church's thesis in mathematical logic). There is a Haskell

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-30 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 30.11.2007 (11:24), Trevor Bača wrote: Hi Andrea and Miguel and Eyolf and everybody, The initial efforts were all implemented in C ... major or minor? :) So (lack of) robustness drove me away from C What's more robust than a C major chord? Sorry for joking -- thanks for your story. I

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-30 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi Andrea and Miguel and Eyolf and everybody, Sorry I've been absent from this thread for a bit; Andrea's guessing right that I've been busy ... :-) Warning: lots of words, and it's all personal stuff, too. Quite a few years ago I sat down and made the conscious decision that trying to write

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-30 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm considering either moving back to Common LISP with Lilypond output or using the built-in Scheme interpreter; but although I have a 15+ year programming background, I'm not finding it very easy to use Lilypond Scheme. I found googling

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-29 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
From: Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I typically use lilypond for algorithmic composition. I use Python to =20= script lily. Sorry to meddle in the thread. Why Python and not the built-in Scheme interpreter? Personal preference or something you would advise other people to? I would be

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-29 Thread Andrea Valle
(Still can't understand this list behaviour of replying to the author and not to the list...) Hi Miguel, I don't like lisp-like languages. I really prefer OO languages. More, I've always find difficult to understand lily internals (no figure, scheme stuff etc). So, for my personal

Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-27 Thread Eyolf Østrem
The thread about strange meters made me wonder: have any of you lilypudlians used LP to write serial music? It would seem to be an ideal combination: make a variable and expose it to different output parameters. I assume that with some scheme code, a sequence of pitches could be translated into

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-27 Thread Andrea Valle
I typically use lilypond for algorithmic composition. I use Python to script lily. Serial practices are just very simple cases. There are other on the list doing so in very complex ways (e.g. Trevor Bača). Best -a- On 27 Nov 2007, at 22:44, Eyolf Østrem wrote: The thread about strange

Re: Lilypond for serial music?

2007-11-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, (that should have been to the list, sorry to bother you Andrea) On Nov 28, 2007 12:27 AM, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I typically use lilypond for algorithmic composition. I use Python to script lily. Serial practices are just very simple cases. There are other on the list