Re: Turkish makam

2023-01-17 Thread Adam Good
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:30 AM Luca Fascione wrote: > All this being said, I just read there are hundreds of makams, which makes > me wonder whether it > wouldn't be more effective to provide a simple method to indicate the > makam of a piece at the start > of the score, for all but the most com

Re: Turkish makam

2023-01-15 Thread Adam Good
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 9:49 AM Hans Åberg wrote: > > As the full number of Turkish makam is very large, perhaps too many to > have in this file, there might be a turkish-makam-extended for the less > common ones. > The turkish-makam.ly file contains if I remember correctly, key signature defini

Re: Turkish makam

2023-01-15 Thread Adam Good
rkish-makam.ly < > http://turkish-makam.ly/> might be renamed makam.ly <http://makam.ly/>. > Adam Good might give his view. > Hans and Werner, For a couple reasons, I deliberately used the name turkish-makam.ly to make a distinction and clarity between the Arabic and Turkish v

Re: The hel-arabic.ly file story...

2023-01-12 Thread Adam Good
Could someone clarify: while hel-arabic.ly has this line that includes arabic.ly , what are they getting out of this? Some more key signatures and keyAlterationOrder? Should all key signatures for the various maqams simply go only into arabic.ly ? Adam On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 4:11 AM Mats Bengts

Re: The hel-arabic.ly file story...

2023-01-08 Thread Adam Good
Amir, I'm a little late to this thread but thought I'd chime in since Karlin High mentioned my name. I'm around (Adam Good) and though I worked on the turkish-makam.ly file and Turkish makam is most my specialty, I'd be happy to look at any ly file you may be working on c

Re: What is holding up 2.20 release?

2019-11-19 Thread Adam Good
made and use daily so it has been heavily tested, at least by me. It's a large update to makam.ly best, Adam Good

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2019-03-15 Thread Adam Good
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:25 AM Hans Åberg wrote: > > How is it going with those glyphs? The Turkish AEU notation system does > not have all the glyphs needed for a transposable system, so one might use > those glyphs to fill the gaps. > I second that this would be fantastic! Adam _

Re: So far some minor LilyDev issues

2018-12-27 Thread Adam Good
Federico, ah what the heck but I just tried to resize my VM window and it's resizing fine just as I'd hoped for. Not sure what to make of that, maybe it'd been ok the whole time? Thank you for the walk through Adam ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypo

So far some minor LilyDev issues

2018-12-25 Thread Adam Good
Hi All, I've booted up the current LilyDev distribution in a VM (Virtualbox) on my MacBook Air running OSX, from the file lilydev-debian-vm-0.3.zip I'm not able to add guest additions: @@@ Unable to insert the virtual optical disk /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.is

Re: ly: updates to hel-arabic.ly (issue 349810043 by pkxgnugi...@runbox.com)

2018-12-17 Thread Adam Good
Hassan, I'm having a little bit of difficulty following the thread because I can't seem to find the hel-arabic.ly file you're working on. Could you please point me to the file so I can play with it? Thank you in advance Adam Good On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:38 PM Hans Åberg wro

Turkish makam (and beyond) contribution(s) to Lilypond

2018-11-22 Thread Adam Good
Greetings Lilypond-dev'ers, Here's Adam Good in Brooklyn, NY. I've shown up on the dev list recently but here's a better introduction. I'm a musician with a passion and fairly decent understanding of Turkish makam and musics of east Europe, the Balkans and beyond. I

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-11-03 Thread Adam Good
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:46 AM Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > Just leave do not specify the tonic scale step in the scale/key definiton! > That's all! ;) > That way it will never be printed in the key signature. > Sometimes my cat has a cat treat right under her nose but she doesn't know it because

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-11-02 Thread Adam Good
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:45 PM Hans Åberg wrote: > > Again, anything like that or even being able to understand Torston's code > > is beyond my skills. I wish! Just a musician. > > He didn't post the code, I think. > Correct, Torston has not posted the code yet here on the dev list but he did p

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-11-01 Thread Adam Good
Hans, This works though technically it is a cheat. If, for whatever reason one wanted to transpose the tonic of bestenigar from fb to c, the key signature will print c4k flat which is of course inaccurate. Why anyone would want to lock an important microtonal pitch like IRAK to C, I don't know othe

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Good
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:46 PM Hans Åberg wrote: > Is this right? It is traditional to raise the third below the finalis, but > not in the octave above, and it looks as though is a. I found this [1], it > has an additional accidental at e. > > Then the finalis should also be the key, as it is al

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Good
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:06 PM Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > When applying my solution to your bestenigar and revnaknuma examples > (denoted "Torsten's mod") perfectly matches your manually tweaked "should > look like this" versions. > That's pretty good for a start (and it's transposable), but I'll

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Good
Torsten and everyone greetings, RE: the key signatures for Turkish makam, I've made definitions for about 91 different makams like Rast, Hicaz, Segah, etc. These definitions are in the turkish-makam.ly file, attached. We need each makam's key signature to: 1. look as they do in standard print (the

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-24 Thread Adam Good
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:42 AM Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 23 Oct 2018, at 04:56, Adam Good wrote: > > > Does it sound lower in standard Turkish performance, that is, which does > not refer to a MIDI? — I just listened to some midi output. Assuming I did this correctly,

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-21 Thread Adam Good
Hans and everyone, This is about as much as I can do for a new Turkish Makam .ly file, see attached: turkish-makam.ly Hans it's very similar to what I sent you privately, took out some unwanted pitch definitions. I can see this replacing the current makam.ly file since it uses the same pitch names

Re: Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-20 Thread Adam Good
Hans thank you for passing this along to the dev list, replies below... On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 4:40 AM Hans Åberg wrote: > > Looks great! A possibility is to add a compile option using > Helmholtz-Ellis arrowed accidentals, which would be better for non-Turkish > to approach this music, and als

Turkish makam using regular.ly

2018-10-20 Thread Adam Good
Hi Hans, I hope this email finds you well. Some questions for you if you have time plus I want to share my close to complete turkish makam file based on the file you sent me originally plus regular.ly here's the new makam include file: turkish-makam-ADAM.ly the other file: KEY_SIGNATURES_regula

Re: Sponsorship available for makam.ly transposition issues

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Good
Hans this is great, I'm on a roll over here. Will pick up on this in a couple of days. THANK YOU! Adam On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:27 PM Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 20 Sep 2018, at 17:40, Adam Good wrote: > > > > Thank you so much for the reply and suggestions! > &g

Re: Sponsorship available for makam.ly transposition issues

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Good
Again thank you! Adam On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:05 PM Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 18 Sep 2018, at 19:01, Adam Good wrote: > > > > Hi everyone! > > I'm assuming no one is currently working on the current issues involving > > transposition when using maka

Sponsorship available for makam.ly transposition issues

2018-09-18 Thread Adam Good
ally. Notation of Turkish makam music uses a microtonal system of 9 microtonal commas to a whole step which makes transposition tricky no matter what. Below is a short example of transposition failure. When transposing down a fourth we get errors on bfc and bfb pitches. Hope to hear from someone!

Re: Co-sponsoring Turkish notation support

2005-10-03 Thread Adam Good
these are some issues that may have no bearing on anything but i thought i'd throw it into the mix.Technically (and well, practically speaking as well) in Turkish theory there doesn't exist a semitone that is divided by 100 cents. (the practical aspect often comes in the way that, if you have a sca

Co-sponsoring Turkish notation support

2005-10-03 Thread Adam Good
Hi I'm Adam Good, musician of Balkan, Turkish, Eastern European music. I've been in contact with Han-Wen regarding some major support in Lilypond for Turkish music which can be considered a microtonal music. It would be fantastic to be able to create charts for Turkish Classical

Re: Supporting Quarter Tones ?

2005-09-28 Thread Adam Good
where alterations are measured in 9ths of a whole tone. I believe they're called komas.I have an idea how to do generic microtonal notation. I'm putting this up as a sponsored feature. Perhaps you're also willing to contribute in the cost?Hi Johnny,I'm Adam Good, the guy Han-Wen i

Turkish notation key signatures possible?

2005-08-27 Thread Adam Good
on "F", is this possible? have a look here for what i want it to look like: http://www.neyzen.com/images/notalar/rast/rast_p_benli_hasan1.gif If this is possible, you will be making many people VERY happy! Hope to hear from someone. best, Adam Good http://www.adamgood.com __