Hi Radu,
I quickly read through the intro you linked to, in particular
http://stanthonysmonastery.org/music/NotationB.htm
As far as I understand Common Western Notation (CWN) and Byzantine notation
are very different. So I'm not sure how much MuseScore would bring to the
table for a byzantine notation editor.
Conceptually,
* MuseScore is built around measures, and byzantine music doesn't have this
concept.
* Byzantine music uses a completely different set of symbols and MuseScore
doesn't support any of them.
* MuseScore is mainly using absolute pitches, even if they are some
possibilities of movable do through plugins, they are mainly hacks.
Byzantine music uses relative pitches.
And so on and so forth. In fact MuseScore is built for CWN, the further a
new system is from CWN, the harder it will be to implement. Tablature
notation was close enough and after much effort we now support
guitar/bass/ukulele tablatures, even lute tablature. But several
individuals wanted to implement the Chinese Jianpu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation, which seems closer
than Byzantine notation, without success so far.
You also mention playback. Even if CWN is quite rigid, MuseScore doesn't
play all the symbols. Byzantine notation seems to be a lot less
deterministic ("Byzantine notation is descriptive, it grants an experienced
chanter the freedom to add to a melody the embellishments he has learned
through oral tradition."), so playback would definitively be even less
satisfying than CWN/MuseScore.
So if you really want to follow this road, you can find me on IRC
#musescore on freenode.net and I can try to guide you. But I'm afraid that
implementing Byzantine notation in MuseScore might be more complex than
implementing it from scratch.
Regards,
lasconic
2016-02-19 4:42 GMT+04:00 sraduvictor <sraduvic...@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> My name is Radu-Victor Sarmasag and I'm a software engineer at Facebook.
> I've recently started using your software to write our church music. While
> doing this,
> I've become interested in also finding a software that I can use to write
> our chants
> written in byzantine notation
> (http://stanthonysmonastery.org/music/Intro.htm), but could not find any.
>
> So I'm wondering, how much work would it be to introduce byzantine
> notations
> to musescore and have them also work on playback (note byzantine chants
> also
> have different scales that have no equivalent to the regular ones), and if
> I
> were interested in doing this, could someone guide me?
>
> Thanks,
> Radu
>
>
>
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