> If you like, you might start using staff notation alone: there are similar > scales in oriental (Persian/Arab/Turkish) music. One then introduces some > microtonal accidentals. > > I have looked through some Byzantine scales, and can see more or less how to > do it. You might use E72 or E53, the latter if you learn Graham Breed's > implementation.
Thank you for the pointers. Since translation to Western notation remains a goal of mine, it would make sense to develop the staff notation. The responses were encouraging enough that I'll begin looking into implementing this in lilypond. Thanks, Erich _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel