Tonic Sol-Fa

2011-03-07 Thread Tim Sheasby
I know that LilyPond does not currently support Tonic Sol-Fa notation. However, 
in my work on African Hymn I found that many Africans are familiar with this 
form of notation. Most of my source material was originally set using this 
format. I devised a spreadsheet with formulas to convert bars of tonic sol-fa 
into lilypond notation. Actually it just converts the d, m, r, f etc to the 
appropriate a, b, c etc based on the key of the song. I added shortcuts for 
adding rests and skips as well - simply using SS instead of s and RR instead of 
r. Once I have entered the notes simply copy the converted columns into 
LilyPond and voila! 
Tim Sheasby
t...@sheafpublishing.co.za


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Re: Tonic Sol-Fa

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Ellis
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Tim Sheasby t...@sheafpublishing.co.za wrote:
 I know that LilyPond does not currently support Tonic Sol-Fa notation. 
 However, in my work on African Hymn I found that many Africans are familiar 
 with this form of notation. Most of my source material was originally set 
 using this format. I devised a spreadsheet with formulas to convert bars of 
 tonic sol-fa into lilypond notation. Actually it just converts the d, m, r, f 
 etc to the appropriate a, b, c etc based on the key of the song. I added 
 shortcuts for adding rests and skips as well - simply using SS instead of s 
 and RR instead of r. Once I have entered the notes simply copy the converted 
 columns into LilyPond and voila!

Hi Tim,
Not quite sure if your work is similar to what I've been doing with
solfege-based part transcriptions but, on the chance it might be
useful,  I've adapted some music function templates that let you write
music in solfege, like so

\lacc \lyricmode { Mun -- gu ni pen -- doh }
do8\f do re mi do4. r8 |

\lacc \lyricmode { Ba -- ba weh tu, }
do8 do re4 do4. r8 |

\lacc \lyricmode { Mun -- gu weh tuh, }
do8 do ti4 la4. r8 |

\lacc \lyricmode { Ah tu pen -- dah. }
sol8 do re4 do4. r8 |

to produce the attached example with the solfege syllables in smaller
italic beneath lyrics.

Some earlier versions are available in LSR and on StackOverflow.com,
but I've been refining the templates since then.  I'll be happy to
share them it if seems useful.

Cheers,
Mike
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Tonic Sol-fa Notation

2010-01-16 Thread pound...@lineone.net
Hi,

Is it ok to request a new feature if I offer to implement it?

I have some old music which is printed in Tonic Sol-fa notation and 
have wanted to be able to print it using LilyPond for some time. I now 
think that LilyPond already has the ability to do this, but with quite 
a bit of tweaking involved.

I haven't seen anything in the tracker and only a handful of posts on 
the list archives about this so am assuming that no-one has looked into 
it in the past.

-  David.



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