Bruno: In SCORE it is trivially easy to do. I would put the rhythm symbols on an invisible staff at any arbitrary pitch and the pitch symbols on a visible staff synchronized to it, converting the appearance of all the notes on that one to stemless halfnotes after entry with an "alter" command. This allows the vertical spacing of the rhythm symbols to be controlled independently.
However, I can't imagine why anyone would want all the events to be spaced out equally in the horizontal dimension. Musicians trained today are conditioned to expect that the spacing will provide at least some hint as to the rhythmic values, and this seems to be intended as a performing edition. Again in SCORE that is simple, because the rhythmic value is independent of the note shape. (Yes, we lutenists who have been playing from from facsimiles for years are easily able to ignore the lack of proportion in the horizontal spacing, but then we are not the apparent intended market for this kind of publication.) Regards, Daniel Heiman ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bruno Correia <[email protected]> To: List LUTELIST <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute notation Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:37:50 -0200 Not easy to do... I'll try and see what happens. Thanks a lot. 2011/10/22 Rockford Mjos <[1][email protected]> I'm not quite convinced by this form of transcription, myself. I have seen editions using a similar technique in decades past, including an early use of a computer program to convert tab to staff (perhaps it was German tab and used black noteheads). But Finale can recreate this style. I use Finale for tablature and regular notation. (Samples on my Ning EG&V and Lute member pages.) Gilberts notes are evenly spaced no matter what the the speed of of the above-staff rhythms, and half-note noteheads (they are angled more than whole notes) were used. So all notes would be entered as half-notes and each measure may require a different time signature (which will be hidden). In the Staff Attributes window, uncheck Stems and Time Signatures. I would probably turn them off after entering all notes and before final spacing and layout. Here's how this could be done in Finale using the sample of Toccata I: Count each note entry in your measure. so measure 1 would be set to 1/2. Enter the notes. Set the meter for measure to 4/2 and enter notes. Set meter of measure 3 to 7/2 and enter notes, etc. I would enter the above staff notes as Lyrics. At this point I would turn off Stem and Time SIgnature display. -- R On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Bruno Correia wrote: Does anyone know how to use Finale or any similar program to edit a lute transcription similar to what Ken Gilbert did on Kapsperger? In fact it is not called a transcription but rather a transliteration. It can be seen here: [1][2]http://www.utorpheus.com/utorpheus/product_info.php?products_i d=73 It seems to be a great idea to aply this concept to lute transcriptions! -- References 1. [3]http://www.utorpheus.com/utorpheus/product_info.php?products_id=7 3 To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.utorpheus.com/utorpheus/product_info.php?products_id=73 3. http://www.utorpheus.com/utorpheus/product_info.php?products_id=73 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
