In response to Graham and others who have expressed frustration about
people who have failed to pickup on accidentals.
It can be very difficult for fist time novices like myself to
understand implicit information about what is a reasonably technical
musical concept.
I spent four hours last night pouring through web site tutorials and
only now do I understand why the tutorial puts so much emphasis on
accidentals.
Prior to this accidentals and the emphasis in the tutorial on
accidentals made no sense to me at all.
When I have more time I'll develop this more fully for the sake of
others because I know it will help to fill out my understanding further.
Simon
On 25/08/2009, at 02:02, Graham Percival wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:39:37AM -0700, Sona wrote:
I'm new to Lilypond and the list. So far the code is pretty
intuitive, but I am stumped by the way accidentals work. Several
posts deal with this subject, but probably are beyond a novice's
ability to undertand.
No. Those posts tried a horrible solution which didn't fix
anything. This *is* well within a novice's ability understand.
Please read chapter 2 of the Learning Manual. Tutorial->Simple
notation->Key signatures and Accidentals.
(or something like that)
I'm transcribing a modern piece with 2 flats in the key
signature (I've set \key g \minor). It's rather atonal, though,
so it seems Lilypond tries to correct pitch by turning every
e-flat and b-flat into a natural.
It sounds like your input contained e-natural and b-natural. You
probably wanted to write ees and bes in your input file.
Seriously, have you read the tutorial? If so, why did you skip
over the big warning about accidentals? This is the second person
recently to not notice that warning; should we make it bigger, or
add a red background, or something?
- Graham
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