Am 05.07.2016 11:43, schrieb Federico Bruni:
Il giorno lun 4 lug 2016 alle 12:10, Carl Sorensen
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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.
ok
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.
In this page:
http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat.html
it talks about "melodic flow":
Another peculiarity of maqamat is that the same note is not always
played with the same exact pitch. The pitch may vary slightly,
depending on the __melodic flow__ and what other notes are played
before and after that note. The idea behind this effect is to round
sharp corners in the melody by drawing the furthest notes nearer. This
effect is sometimes called the law of attraction or gravity, and is
common in other musical traditions (e.g. in Byzantine music).
Perhaps the doc is implicitely about "melodic flow details"?
Then what would "siblings" mean in that context?
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That text of the manual is not a description of any real feature of
lilypond, but describes the nature of arabic/turkish music in a very
superficial form. Simply ignore it, it will not help you in any form -
that is my personal opinion.
Arabic music/notation is different, as the arabic scale is 24-tet,
whereas the Ottoman classical music uses a 53-tet scale. You easily find
someone saying that is nonsense ... I simply agree, as it is
oversimplified as well.
There had been some suggestions to extend lilypond for correct notation
of arabic/turkish music. You might find mails about that attempts in the
archive. But there was no real interest to add this feature to lilypond.
Regards
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