Re: Survey: Large scores

2019-05-15 Thread nagymusic
Orm, As I was reading more about concatenating various sections and/or combining multiple movements into a larger Lilypond file, I came across your post that included a link to your impressive orchestral score! I was able to download and study the PDF you attached in your post. Would you be

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, This is not hard to implement at all, you just have to set things up appropriately. You give a perfect example of why we need to improve Lilypond’s implementation. The method clarinetIPart = \relative c'' { ... % clarinet music here } clarinetIIPart

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, this is the way how I finally had to do it in my piece, but unfortunately this method doesn't work very well in orchestra parts where instruments are changed (like Clarinets changing between Eb, Bb and Bassclarinet, or French Horns changing from G-Clef to F-Clef) as you either have to

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:18:39AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, This is not hard to implement at all, you just have to set things up appropriately. You give a perfect example of why we need to improve Lilypond’s implementation. The method clarinetIPart = \relative c'' {

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Rather, one should simply be able to say [something like] clarinets = { \takeInstrument #”clar.Bf” %% Bb clarinet music here \takeInstrument #“clar.A” %% A clarinet music here } and all scores (transposing and concert-pitch) should Do The Right Thing™, with

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-19 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Kieren, Am Samstag, den 18. April 2015 um 17:54:44 Uhr (-0400) schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Would love to see it, but the link didn’t work for me… =\ that's strange. I just tried again and it works for me. Could it be that your browser complained because of a missing certificate as the system

Something wrong with transposing instruments? (Was: Re: Survey: Large scores)

2015-04-19 Thread Gilles
Hi. [Sorry for the thread hijacking.] [...] Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the other way around, as it is implemented at the

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote: [...] Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the other way around, as it is

Re: Something wrong with transposing instruments? (Was: Re: Survey: Large scores)

2015-04-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles, [...] Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the other way around, as it is implemented at the moment). [...] Can you

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Orm, the biggest score so far for me is a piece for big orchestra, 6 soloists, live-electronics and fixed media from last year. This sounds great! Would love to see it, but the link didn’t work for me… =\ considering the amount of source files Curious! For my 57-part orchestra piece, I

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-18 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
On 4/16/15, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: That being said, orchestral music is not what's the most difficult to engrave (even dual-voices staves remain somewhat simple overall, even with unmetered contemporary notation, microtones, feathered beams etc.). To me, complex

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-18 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 05:54:44PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: [...] The only really painful part was the partcombiner This is a big one for me. I would love to see — and would be happy to help fund — a GUPPY (Grand Unified Partcombiner Project, Yay!) to tackle a rewrite from the ground

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.04.2015 um 00:33 schrieb H. S. Teoh: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:12:50PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 17.04.2015 um 20:44 schrieb H. S. Teoh: [...] More annoying is the fact that \partcombine often gets confused when the two voices have very divergent rhythms -- crescendo hairpins don't

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-18 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
I'd be down for helping out with commissioned engraving work, but I think it raises some issues with which I have not yet made myself familiar within Lily's workflow. Primarily, how is the work distributed? Does each participant get individual parts, while a general editor makes sure things line

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 16. April 2015 um 19:43:38 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Urs Liska: ... I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has successfully created with LilyPond. the biggest score so far for me is a piece for big orchestra, 6 soloists, live-electronics and fixed media from

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:51:41AM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote: [...] The only really painful part was the partcombiner which seems very buggy, but was indispensable as I needed to save as much vertical space as possible. Yeah, I've run into quite a number of \partcombine myself. Most of it

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:44:57AM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:51:41AM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote: [...] The only really painful part was the partcombiner which seems very buggy, but was indispensable as I needed to save as much vertical space as possible. Yeah,

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has successfully created with LilyPond. Not exactly a single score, but I've been working on a transcription/transposition of the Bartok violin duets for my personal

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.04.2015 um 20:44 schrieb H. S. Teoh: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:51:41AM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote: [...] The only really painful part was the partcombiner which seems very buggy, but was indispensable as I needed to save as much vertical space as possible. Yeah, I've run into quite a

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:12:50PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 17.04.2015 um 20:44 schrieb H. S. Teoh: [...] More annoying is the fact that \partcombine often gets confused when the two voices have very divergent rhythms -- crescendo hairpins don't merge, dynamics get printed twice, I have

Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Hey all, this is not related to the discussion about the recently improved processing speed, although it may sound related: I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are regularly dealing with big scores, and maybe I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hey all, this is not related to the discussion about the recently improved processing speed, although it may sound related: I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are regularly dealing with big scores, and maybe

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.04.2015 um 19:42 schrieb H. S. Teoh: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hey all, this is not related to the discussion about the recently improved processing speed, although it may sound related: I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs (et al.), I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are regularly dealing with big” scores I am regularly dealing with what I would consider “big” scores: for example, the Piano/Conductor scores of my musicals usually run over 100 pages. maybe I'd like to know what

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread James Worlton
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 16.04.2015 um 19:42 schrieb H. S. Teoh: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hey all, this is not related to the discussion about the recently improved processing speed, although it may

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Dear Urs, The largest score I have worked on is a full edition of Schubert's German Stabat Mater D. 383: https://gitlab.com/edition-kainhofer/0002_schubert_stabatmater_d383/ (PDF output files are at: https://gitlab.com/edition-kainhofer/0002_schubert_stabatmater_d383/tree/master/out ) The

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Basically I'd be interested in an estimate if there are practical limitations where one would be better off skipping a commission because LilyPond would be at its limit. I don’t think it’s likely to happen anytime soon.

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Il 16/04/2015 19:43, Urs Liska ha scritto: I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are regularly dealing with big scores, and maybe I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has successfully created with LilyPond. Dear Urs and all, my 'score monstre' is

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 6:43 PM I'd like to have an idea how many people have already or are regularly dealing with big scores, and maybe I'd like to know what might be the biggest score anyone has successfully created with LilyPond. Most of my work with LilyPond is

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Jay Anderson
Not one big score, but lots of smaller ones bundled: http://horndude77.github.io/horn-solos/. About 700 total pages (10x13in horn part, 9x12in piano). 2.19.17 - 9m39s 2.19.18 - 7m00s (a nice speed bump here.) Both max out around 6.5gb. I recall past versions required more memory. -Jay On

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, Basically I'd be interested in an estimate if there are practical limitations where one would be better off skipping a commission because LilyPond would be at its limit. I have yet to reach that point, and I’ve Lily-pound four stage musicals, a chamber opera, 9-minute works for

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.04.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, Basically I'd be interested in an estimate if there are practical limitations where one would be better off skipping a commission because LilyPond would be at its limit. I have yet to reach that point, and I’ve Lily-pound four stage

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs and all, I recently created a full score (and parts for instruments, solists and choir) for a new reconstruction of J.S.Bachs Passionsmusik nach Marco, BWV 247. That was a bit more than 200 pages on B4 paper size. The setting is flute I+II, oboe I+II (with parts da caccia, d'amore),

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-16 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:55:48PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: [...] What's your definition of a big score? Well, actually that depends on the results of the survey, I guess ... Basically I'd be interested in an estimate if there are practical limitations where one would be better off skipping