Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Michael, nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or something like that. I just had the idea that it might be

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Michael, nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. Thanks, Patrick! I agree that the name may be confusing. I considered calling it something like

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or something like

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel
Marc Hohl marc at hohlart.de writes: Am 21.01.2011 03:05, schrieb Daniel: Hello, This issue came up in 2008 and John Mandereau wrote some functions which IMHO do exactly what you need, please look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-12/msg00805.html HTH, Marc

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 08:46, schrieb Basso Ridiculoso: Hello Marc, Danke für deine antwort zu meine frage! :) Its funny you point out those functins, because I have been looking at that...but I have not been able to make it work. I hope you don't mind a direct reply to your email. No problem, but

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Ellis
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Daniel basso.ridicul...@gmail.com wrote: Any other ideas? Hi Daniel, Here's a partial, but very general solution that will modally transpose within any scale (or any ordered set of pitches) of any length using modulo arithmetic. To make it usable in LilyPond,

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . Cheers, MS On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Daniel wrote: Hello, I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have a question

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 05:26, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . This is more or less the same info I emailed him - unfortunately, we both missed the fact that he asked for _pentatonic_ transposition, which isn't supported

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel
Marc Hohl marc at hohlart.de writes: Am 21.01.2011 05:26, schrieb mike at apollinemike.com: Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . This is more or less the same info I emailed him - unfortunately, we both missed the fact that he asked for

Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel
Hello, I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have a question on how to diatonically transpose a motive in a non-major or minor scale in this case, a pentatonic. For instance, suppose I have this pentatonic

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-20 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 03:05, schrieb Daniel: Hello, Hello Daniel, I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. :-) I have a question on how to diatonically transpose a motive in a non-major or minor scale in this case,