On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, 04:29 Yakir Arbib <yakirar...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear list, > > > First of all, happy New Year to everybody! > > I wanted to ask you a more general question related to composition and > LilyPond: > > Can anyone here who is a composer and uses LilyPond to compose give me > some little insight about the process? > > I mean if you are composing for more than one stave (I.E. piano and > cello or string quartet) how do you keep track of the music if each > stave has to be coded separately? > > Do you composers use Lily only after you notate the pieces on regular > paper, or is it possible to make some sort of easier structure in Lily > to make sense of a multi-instrument piece of music so your composition > process is not constantly being interrupted by technicalities? > > I am visually impaired and don't have a primary way of notating the > music "for myself" first. Any tips would be incredibly appreciated!! > > Thank you very much and all the best in music! > > Yakir > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
I usually have a pretty good idea of the music before it goes to Lilypond. Only final touches happen later. Would it be useful for you to work in a MIDI sequencer, and then use midi2ly to get it into Lilypond? Vaughan >
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