2009/8/31 Reinhold Kainhofer <[email protected]>: > However, the absolute pitch names a, b, etc. are really absolute pitch names > and their meaning should never, ever depend on the key signature. Just ask > anyone music teacher of any level you know...
I think it does worth mentioning the Spanish tradition of not solmisating the exact pitches but the noteheads alone, so to speak. So we sing the Beethoven's fifth as "sol sol sol miiiiiiii" (with the actual sound being g8 g g ees2\fermata), which is confusing, of course, but it is a deeply rooted tradition. This makes also far easier and faster to solmisate pieces in D flat major, for example. I reckon this kind of solmisation is pretty useless and ambiguous. As for the allegedly easier input of notes in lilypond if you'd enter noteheads only the visual way, ignoring the key signature, I must say that beginners complain strongly when they have to enter heavyly altered music, of course, but then I "gently suggest" the 'transposing' and the 'actual meaning' arguments and they get disarmed immediately. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
