Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:50:54 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Strings are so expressive they can never be properly > >> synthesized. I grant you that. > > > > To be fair, I'd assume that this applies even more to vocal music > > -

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Monday, October 13, 2008 7:35 PM On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:33:37 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graham, you wrote Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 AM > Not the MIDI version of string sounds, you don't. :) Strings are so expressive they can never be proper

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Strings are so expressive they can never be properly synthesized. I grant you that. To be fair, I'd assume that this applies even more to vocal music -- quite apart from the expressivity of voice, midi doesn't even attempt to add lyrics. Yes and n

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:33:37 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham, you wrote Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 AM > > > Not the MIDI version of string sounds, you don't. :) > > Strings are so expressive they can never be properly > synthesized. I grant you that. To be fai

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Finally, I did some work to get it done properly in 3 lines, here is what it looks like on my box [with lily doc parameters] What do you think ? Cheers, David ;; - Le Sat, 11

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Finally, I did some work to get it done properly in 3 lines, here is what it looks like on my box [with lily doc parameters] What do

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:36:38 -0300 David S__verin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - try reduce the staff line to 16 [or lower?] It's supposed to be 15, anyway. Trevor: pitches-headword.ly Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
forgot to mention as weel, the file I sent you was utf8 encoded, as you commented the line, could you also replace the following accented characters: David Séverin épouse Lívia ;; -- Also, the line starting with 'measure' 5, suppress the third argument of the first 3 calls to

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
Also, the line starting with 'measure' 5, suppress the third argument of the first 3 calls to \colmark [ the " " arg], this will also save another vertical line ... Cheers, David Le Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:18:51 +0100, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > David > > Your extract is no

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
Le Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:18:51 +0100, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > David > > Your extract is now visible on the kainhofer site. Unfortunately it takes > up too > much space, with the result that the small amount of following text is > pushed > off the bottom of the first s

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I agree with you, Trevor. The MIDI block should go in for the sake of the readers, not for the sake of those building docs. I'm a fairly experienced user now, but when I was starting out it gave me fits trying to get the MIDI block in the right place and I would definitely have appreciated th

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Your extract is now visible on the kainhofer site. Unfortunately it takes up too much space, with the result that the small amount of following text is pushed off the bottom of the first screen. I would prefer to reduce it to the first two lines, after the end of the first two triplet

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 AM On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:43 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 > "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Err, why midi? It

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:43 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 > > "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Err, why midi? It doesn't help anything for the docs, and as > >

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is possible. I adde

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these > headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show > what is possible. I added midi output (hope that's OK with you - > what tem

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-09 Thread David Séverin
Le Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi David > > Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these > headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is > possible. I added midi output (hope that's OK wi

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Le Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:40:24 -0500, Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-08 Thread David Séverin
Le Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:32:09 +0100, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Jonathan > > There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The two bars you > have done already would be quite sufficient and would have been ideal, but > as you say, David's offering does display r

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread David Séverin
Le Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:32:09 +0100, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Jonathan > > There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The two bars you > have done already would be quite sufficient and would have been ideal, but > as you say, David's offering does display r

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Certainly this is fine with me. David's piece looks really cool and could serve as an example for much more than just bowed-string techniques. It'll be better to use his example. Best, Jonathan Trevor Daniels wrote: Jonathan There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The t

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:58 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings That's a nice-looking piece and would certainly show off more of Lilypond's capabilities than the Beethoven passage I'm working on. If y'all would rather use

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
That's a nice-looking piece and would certainly show off more of Lilypond's capabilities than the Beethoven passage I'm working on. If y'all would rather use David's piece that'd be fine with me. I've finished 2 bars of the Beethoven (there would only be 2 more) so I could bail out now or kee

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
quot;Jonathan Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Graham's right. Too much time on copyright. I've selected a very nice passage from B

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
From: "Jonathan Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Graham's right. Too much time on copyright. I've selected a very nice passage from

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:43:28 -0400 > Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Graham, >> >> > waste time on this garbage >> >> I find is baffling ___ and, frankly, more than a little sad ___ that >> you think discus

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:43:28 -0400 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham, > > > waste time on this garbage > > I find is baffling ___ and, frankly, more than a little sad ___ that > you think discussing copyright issues is a "waste of time" for > > > professors, composers, program

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham's right. Too much time on copyright. I've selected a very nice passage from Beethoven's Op. 127 and will begin setting it later today. With any luck I'll send it out by the late owl and it'll be waiting with Trevor's breakfast tomorrow ;-) Jon Graham Percival wrote: complicated en

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/7 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published >> in the U.S. before the 1920s. > > All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:43:28 -0400 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham, > > > waste time on this garbage > > I find is baffling ___ and, frankly, more than a little sad ___ that > you think discussing copyright issues is a "waste of time" for > > > professors, composers, programm

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, waste time on this garbage I find is baffling — and, frankly, more than a little sad — that you think discussing copyright issues is a "waste of time" for professors, composers, programmers, musicians... But that's your issue, I guess. Not-so-cheers also, Kieren. _

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
New headword will be coming soon. Probably a late Beethoven quartet. We don't need copyright headaches. Jon Graham Percival wrote: Find a different headword. You don't want to screw around with "fair use". Is "fair use" under US law? Is it "fair dealing" under Canadian law? IIRC the last t

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Graham Percival
Find a different headword. You don't want to screw around with "fair use". Is "fair use" under US law? Is it "fair dealing" under Canadian law? IIRC the last time we looked at this, my not-a-lawyer reading of the Canadian copyright law was that, since we weren't quoting a small exerpt *for the

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
So, do I need to do a different headword, or can this small excerpt be considered "fair use"? (Or does the concept of fair use apply in French copyright law?) Jon Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: It's true that in most of the European countries (and many other countries around the world) Ravel's w

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Sebastian Menge
Am Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:20:41 +0200 schrieb "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But six bars of Ravel won't hurt. What would hurt? Does anyone have experiences with publishing leadsheets of jazz standards? E.g. like the famous realbooks? Would that hurt the copyright owners? Seb. __

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by the French publishers :-( Those damn French… they always take their own sweet time! ;-) But six bars of Ravel won't hurt. Agreed. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Kulp >> Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:04 >> To: Trevor Daniels >> Cc: Lilypond-User List >> Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings >> >> Could you email me the code with >> the time sig removed? I've never figured out how to do this except b

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008 schrieb Risto Vääräniemi: > 2008/10/7 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in > > 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. > > In Europe (European Economic

RE: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
Nick Payne > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jonathan Kulp > Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:04 > To: Trevor Daniels > Cc: Lilypond-User List > Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings > > Could you email

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/7 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in > 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. In Europe (European Economic Area) the term of copyright ends when the author has been dead for more than 70 years. Ravel died in December 2

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Thanks, Trevor. I hadn't even listened to the MIDI before. I'm sure the strings sound much better. I'll have to check the tempo of this passage and set it appropriately, though, b/c I don't think it's correct right now. And I see now how easy it is to remove the time signature. :) Jonathan

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Rutger Hofman
Ravel died in 1937. In almost all countries, copyright lasts 70 years past the death of the author (I think Canada still has the 50-year rule, as one of the very few exceptions; and exceptions never extend the period of protection). Since Jan 1, 2008, Ravel's works are free of copyright. U.S.

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
D]> Cc: "Kieren MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lilypond-User List" Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S.

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, the pdf I downloaded from the International Music Library Score Project was made from a Dover score, and I think those are always made from public domain stuff. If

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Kulp wrote Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:04 AM Ok I've put together six bars of the Ravel quartet. File is attached so you can see it looks like it'll be appropriate. It would be nice to have a couple of fingerings and bowing indications, but this passage didn't have any. There are

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/7 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published > in the U.S. before the 1920s. All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by the French publishers :-( But six bars of Ravel won't hurt. Cheers, Valentin _

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok I've put together six bars of the Ravel quartet. File is attached so you can see it looks like it'll be appropriate. It would be nice to have a couple of fingerings and bowing indications, but this passage didn't have any. There are some pizz. and arco and up-bow on the next system but it

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ah, good ideas. I was just looking at Bartok's First Quartet as well, which was first published in 1911. The Ravel has always been a favorite, though, so I'll go find that one and take a look. Jon Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, It would be cool to do something more modern if it's in publ

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, It would be cool to do something more modern if it's in public domain. Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published in the U.S. before the 1920s. Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I wouldn't mind doing that. I have some Beethoven quartet scores from which I could choose something, perhaps? It would be cool to do something more modern if it's in public domain. Jon Trevor Daniels wrote: I'm ready for an inspiring example of string music as the headword for NR 2.3 Unfre

Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
I'm ready for an inspiring example of string music as the headword for NR 2.3 Unfretted string instruments. A fragment of a string quartet maybe? Any suggestions or volunteers to produce one? Trevor ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g