Hello,
I am writing a piece for a 9 piece ensemble in which I want the players to
choose 9 different pitches along with articulations and/or other additional
symbols to indicate extended techniques and such. I want to take those 81
different “glyphs” if you will and generate a score and parts. The part I
specify as the composer is only rhythm and which glyph to use.
I would like to bring along the pitch level and say stocatto, accent, things
like that but keep them separated from rhythm.
So say ‘aa’ is middle C stocatto I could write { aa4 aa2 aa aa } which would be
the same as { c’4-. c2-. c-. c-. }
At first I thought I might just use variables like
aa = { ‘c }
{ \aa4 \aa2 \aa \aa }
But that didn’t parse and is also an extra backslash and such I’d rather not
have in there if possible.
So said another way, I’d like to write a meta-score like { aa4 aa2 aa aa ab ab
ab ac ac ca ca } and those note names relate to a set of pitches determined
maybe in another file (not code hopefully) so that as the pitches are
chosen/changed it is easy to regenerate the score/parts.
So maybe something near
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/master/scm/define-note-names.scm
<https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/master/scm/define-note-names.scm>
I could add in a list of pitch names from another file included in the score
somehow?
Thanks!
Craig
