Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little > misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a > tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or > something like

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > Hi Michael, > > nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little > misleading in this case. Thanks, Patrick! I agree that the name may be confusing. I considered calling it something like \scalarImitation, since that'

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Michael, nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or something like that. I just had the idea that it might be u

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel
Marc Hohl hohlart.de> writes: > > Am 21.01.2011 05:26, schrieb mike apollinemike.com: > > Hey Daniel, > > > > Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . > This is more or less the same info I emailed him - unfortunately, we > both missed > the fact that he asked for

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 05:26, schrieb m...@apollinemike.com: Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . This is more or less the same info I emailed him - unfortunately, we both missed the fact that he asked for _pentatonic_ transposition, which isn't supported b

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey Daniel, Check out http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/JM_diatonic-transpose.ly . Cheers, MS On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Daniel wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been > looking for something like this for a long time. > > I have a que

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Ellis
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Daniel wrote: > Any other ideas? > Hi Daniel, Here's a partial, but very general solution that will modally transpose within any scale (or any ordered set of pitches) of any length using modulo arithmetic. To make it usable in LilyPond, you'll need to wrap it in

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 08:46, schrieb Basso Ridiculoso: Hello Marc, Danke für deine antwort zu meine frage! :) Its funny you point out those functins, because I have been looking at that...but I have not been able to make it work. I hope you don't mind a direct reply to your email. No problem, but sin

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel
Marc Hohl hohlart.de> writes: > > Am 21.01.2011 03:05, schrieb Daniel: > > Hello, > > > This issue came up in 2008 and John Mandereau wrote some functions > which IMHO do exactly what you need, please look at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-12/msg00805.html > > HTH, >

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-20 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 21.01.2011 03:05, schrieb Daniel: Hello, Hello Daniel, I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. :-) I have a question on how to diatonically transpose a motive in a non-major or minor scale in this case,

Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel
Hello, I have recently discovered Lilypond, and wow. It is just great. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have a question on how to diatonically transpose a motive in a non-major or minor scale in this case, a pentatonic. For instance, suppose I have this pentatonic {