On 7/1/16 5:08 AM, "Federico Bruni" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi all > >In the following paragraph, taken from >http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/arabic-music#arabic-k >ey-signatures > >> Other maqams in the same bayati group, as shown in the table below: >> (bayati, hussaini, saba, and ushaq) can be indicated in the same way. >> These are all variations of the base and most common maqam in the >> group, which is bayati. They usually differ from the base maqam in >> their upper tetrachords, or certain flow details that don¹t change >> their fundamental nature, as siblings. > >The last sentence seems quite obscure to me. What are "flow details"? >What are "siblings" in this context? I think that "flow details" and "siblings" are arabic music terms, rather than LilyPond internal terms. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_maqam Although, I can't really understand that wikipedia page either. It appears that maqams are so different from traditional western music that the terms are very difficult to relate. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
