So <diatonic> helps forcing the use of the « simplest » pitch, while I thought it was used to help forcing the use of the enharmonic one. Now I understand.
Thanks Simon for this enlightenment, and a nice day! JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 12:31, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 12:09, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> Hello Simon, >> >> The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the <chromatic> markup is mandatory… > > Of course it is, else you’d never know if it’s horns in F or in F# (yes, > there is such a thing). But in addition you have the information that it’s 5 > diatonic steps. > > Best, Simon > >> >> JM >> >>> Le 1 sept. 2017 à 10:23, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> a écrit : >>> >>> On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >>>> But then, why is the <diatonic> markup present in MusicXML? >>> A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum on Facebook, we had a >>> discussion about why Čaikovskij spells what sounds a B major chord in the >>> Horns in F as <fis bes cis>. In short: A# is very uncomfortable to play for >>> horns, horns don’t use any written key signature anyway, etc. My point here >>> is: MusicXML wants to avoid such enharmonic respellings by not specifying a >>> fifth as 7 semitones, but as 5 diatonic steps amounting to 7 semitones. Or >>> so I guess… >>> >>> Best, Simon > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
