On Wed 18 Oct 2017 at 10:00:56 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > James Harkins <[email protected]> writes: > > >> On 16 Oct 2017 20:38, "Ken Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I honestly did not expect this kind of response, and I'm getting it from > >> multiple people. I asked a technical question and got a whole bunch of > >> "answers" saying I'm stupid to try to achieve that effect. Except for > >> Kieren hinting that it will probably be difficult, there has been *zero* > >> actual discussion about the technical aspects of it. > >> > >> If LilyPond or its community isn't friendly to people who want to > >> experiment with notation, I guess I'm finding that out pretty quickly. > > > [...] > > > I can see how some of the comments on this thread came across like, > > "You're doing it wrong," and this could seem like hostility toward the > > idea of experimenting with notation. I read it a bit differently. The > > commenters are expressing concern that you may have unpleasant > > surprises when you get into rehearsal. Some expressed this with > > sarcasm, which usually doesn't come across well in e-mail. > > "Some" is an overgeneralization I think. I indeed read one reply I > considered inappropriate. Don't remember whether I'd have characterized > it as "sarcasm", but at any rate, sarcasm does not work in real life for > putting a discussion back on track, and it isn't suitable for mailing > lists either.
I have already apologised to the OP because he obviously interpreted my remark (rather than the post, I assume) as unfriendly, which was not my intention. The post was not an attempt to put anything back on track. While Chris had already mentioned mistakes, Kieren ambiguity, and you the puzzled men, I wanted to point out the actual effect on singers caused by the subconcious link between what the eye sees and how the vocal apparatus prepares to sing a pitch. That was the first paragraph, on topic and appropriate. The second came about because I had a brief chat with a soprano about the compositional effect (tutti unison). She mentioned the limited range over which sopranos and basses can realistically sing in unison, and I said that, were it for an instrument, it might be written with a C clef, thinking about having to read all those ledger lines. Anyway, apologies a second time for trying to be clever and light-hearted, and obviously failing. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
