On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 08:26 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > I very rarely ever see the ottava bassa on classical guitar piece. > When I see it, I am not thrown off by it. In my template I used a > normal trble clef and set the tranposition to -12. I will use ottava > bassa if That is the more proper thing to do. > Well, yes it is more "proper" since the pitch is an octave lower than treble clef. But I've no doubt some users will want a treble clef sounding and octave lower but not saying so, so we could do with both.
Needing even more sorting out would be transposing instruments - some people would want to enter the music at actual pitch, others would want to enter at the transposed pitch... I recall that LilyPond has special midi-transpose syntax in this connection. Richard > Jeremiah > > On Jan 16, 2016 3:23 AM, "Richard Shann" <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 22:55 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > template for classical guitar. > > Classical guitar has a quirk: it should be in the treble > ottava bassa > clef (i.e. with an italic 8 underneath the treble clef) but > that is > often omitted in sloppy typesets. It needs to be there to > avoid the > music being entered an octave out; we could with some effort > provide a > template that used the correct pitches but drew the clef > without the 8 > for those who find the 8 irritating. (The problem would start > to show if > someone was doing chamber music including guitar ...) > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
