Recently I have been transcribing old prints and manuscripts using Denemo. My target, as usual, is to enter the music in the the time it takes to play it through twice (once for the rhythm, once for the notes). In fact, I pretty much achieved this partly because the slower and easier parts can be played more quickly than in a performance. The main difficulty is still losing one's place, particularly entering the rhythm, where I tend to enter a whole movement at a time. The problem is essentially that the music you are transcribing is in another window on the screen and it is easy to return to a place where the rhythm is the same as the bit you just drummed in.
So it occurred to me that what would be good would be a way to associate the source more directly with the transcription. Each measure would have attached to it the measure of music it transcribes. This would have other merits - a user could consult the original material if they doubted your editorial decision. So in this scheme you would first of all go through the original print dragging a box over each measure - each time you clicked a measure would be created in Denemo with the image of the measure the user has outlined attached. Then, when playing a measure in, the original would be visible immediately below the current measure. There is a parallel here with the earlier idea I mentioned - the audio score mixer. This was attaching an audio original to a Denemo score. In each case I envisage the user dividing the original up into measures and then adding stuff in Denemo that corresponds to the original, be it an accompaniment or a transcription. Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
