[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
I agree with Daniel. Regards Le Mardi 19 novembre 2013 7h57, Daniel F. Heiman heiman.dan...@juno.com a ecrit : Anthony: Given the current state of the art, I would strongly encourage you to use Fronimo to set the tablature version of your edition. The cost of the software

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Christopher Wilke
Hi Anthony, I'm not sure there is any consensus at all regarding lute music in staff notation. As for my personal feelings, if the original notation is mensural staff notation, I would like a performing edition also in staff notation. For practical reasons, it is nice to play from a clean

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread William Brohinsky
My personal preference is to see the edition in the same form as the original manuscript, staff notation for staff notation, numerical tab for numerical, 'upside up' for upside up, etc (with the understanding that other than direction, I'm not inferring that numeric should or must

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Daniel F. Heiman
(or maximize them, if you want special effects). Regards, Daniel Heiman -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel F. Heiman Sent: 19 November, 2013 00:54 To: 'Anthony Hart' Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tablature

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Could you not simply publish a facsimile edition of the original source and so avoid subjective input and if anyone wishes they could then make their own tablature transcription to suit personal preferences. MH On Tue, 11/19/13, Anthony Hart [1]anthony.hart1...@gmail.com wrote:

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Nancy Carlin
There are a lot of really nice things about Fronimo, but when you get to baroque music there are some ornament signs and right hand symbols that are not available. I have gotten around this by importing a pdf into Photoshop and adding what I needed. Has anyone tried Paul Beier's new tab

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear all, I understand wholeheartedly the need for a good tool for tabulature publishing, but how beautiful are many of the original tabulatures! And they all - also those that are not so beautiful - are very personal! So why not write also nowadays by your own hand? No limitations in the

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread Tobiah
On 11/19/2013 11:44 AM, Arto Wikla wrote: Dear all, I understand wholeheartedly the need for a good tool for tabulature publishing, but how beautiful are many of the original tabulatures! And they all - also those that are not so beautiful - are very personal! So why not write also nowadays

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-19 Thread sterling price
Regarding hand written music--- If given a choice, I would always prefer hand written tab to computer tab, especially with baroque music. I am baffled why anyone would choose computer over original, when the original is so clear and beautiful. When the original is not legible that

[LUTE] Re: Tablature for publication

2013-11-18 Thread Daniel F. Heiman
Anthony: Given the current state of the art, I would strongly encourage you to use Fronimo to set the tablature version of your edition. The cost of the software is moderate given the amount of time and effort that has been put into creating it. Input of tablature is very easy and very quick.