From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:04:34 +0100
Dear David,
as a small addition and a partly similar answer to Urs’, I think the point is:
LilyPond tries to suggest (or even enforce as a default) conventions of
classic
music notation. This comprises for example that clefs are repeated for each
line
but the time signature isn’t.
In your case, that means: The key signature can depend on the instrument and
can
be different for each staff. But in most cases, the time signature is the same
within a score (across staves). You can have polyrhythmical music in LilyPond
but it is not the default. So while this looks inconsistent from the purely
programmatical point of view, it makes sense for most music.
Cheers,
Joram
With respect, as a professional (mainly classical) musician for half a
century I totally understand why key signatures and time signatures are
handled differently.
My query - evidently not very well expressed - was not why does
Lilypond handle them differently, but how does one discover the
internal mechanism by which it does this. Peter clearly understood
this, and although he could not provide an answer to how to find an
answer in the documentation, he has apparently felt the same frustration
in the past.
If or when I ever get to a comprehensive understanding of how Lilypond
handles things, I might well take Urs up on his suggestion of writing
something on the subject for Scores of Beauty - a site I was not aware
of until this evening.
David
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