Hi,
There is a very interesting notation being promoted by
Albert Brennink and his Chroma Institute that I would
love to see implemented in LilyPond.
It is a uniform, accidental-free, chromatic notation in which
successive lines always represent notes separated by a whole tone
and successive staffs are an octave apart. Thus a musical interval
is always represented by the same vertical separation,
regardless of where it occurs, and the printed music is a true
graph of pitch. (Duration of notes is represented conventionally.)
The Chroma Institute has a website:
http://www.chroma-music.com/homepage.html
[***Please note that the Debussy samples on that page
are defective because the GIFs are shrunk, causing
many probems including the complete loss of some ledger
lines! The image files themselves are OK, however.
(I attach a snapshot.)]
In my opinion, there is a great opportunity for
melody and harmony to be made significantly more accessible
subjects, particularly to children, through the use of a notation,
such as Ailler-Brennink, which is perfectly uniform and free
of accidentals.
I would be delighted if consideration could be given to
the implementation the Ailler-Brennink notation in LilyPond.
-John Ringland
Buffalo, NY
USA
