Dear Cornelius, I've been thinking about a logical way to implement the different keys of an orchestral score in pmx. I'm not a programmer, and maybe what I am writing here is not workable. It's a try.
1. There should be a first switch in the code that tells pmx that this is an orchestral score with variations concerning the pitch or the key in the different instruments. 2. Once in orchestral mode, there are different possibilities (implemented in the code with a sub-switch): ---2.1. the source is written with all instruments in a 445 hz key but in the dvi-file there are some instruments that should have different keys of their own. In the midi-file all instruments have to sound at 445 hz ---2.2 the source is written with some instruments in a different key of their own and the dvi-file has to reflect these keys but all instruments in the midi-file have to sound at 445 hz ---2.3 the source is written with some instruments in a different key of their own but both in the dvi-file and in the midi-file all instruments should have the 445 hz pitch. Maybe a three pass system is suited to solve this problem: In a first pass, pmx should create what can be created without changing the source: the midi-file in case 2.1, the dvi-file in case 2.2, nothing in case 2.3. In a second pass pmx should automatically change (in memory) the source in such a way that the needed transpositions will be done. The needed information about the transposition of the different instruments should be available for instance in the name-fields of the different instruments. In a third pass pmx can create the missing parts of the operation: the dvi-file in case 2.1, the midi-file in case 2.2, the dvi-file and the midi-file in case 2.3 Best regards, Thomas Lemmens ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cornelius C. Noack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Mondrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Daniel Taupin > I -- as surely everbody on this list -- was deeply shocked by the > sad news. My first reaction was that there should be some really > beautiful music put freshly into the WIMA (Werner Icking Music > Archive), in memory of Daniel Taupin; and immediately Mozarts > ``Mauerische Trauermusik'' came to my mind: from what I know > about Daniel, it would be particularily appropriate for him. > > I set down to begin this, and after several hours had produced > but one page; so I had to give up on this project for the time > being. The main reason why it is so difficult is that neither PMX > nor, alas, MusiXTeX provides for typesetting the many > `transposing' wind instruments in a complex score. The > ``Mauerische Trauermusik'' (in c minor) has wind instruments > in C, in B flat, in F and in E flat, all therefore appearing > with different signatures) ! > > So the real monument to Daniel Taupin would be if someone would > invent a clever way to implement an orchestral transposition > notation with MusiXTeX. I don't think I can, so I put it up as a > challenge to whoever feels up to such a task! > > > ccn. > -- > ............................................................ > > Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: > Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 > Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 > Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 > D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > Fax: 346 7872 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW-page: www-theorie.physik.uni-bremen.de/~noack > ............................................................ > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
