Hello all,
I am new to Lilypond and the devel list so hello to everyone. I
think Lilypond is a fantastic program and as I am a developer would
like to contribute something to the project. Selfishly, I would like
my first contribution to be something that convert an ancient incipit
to the Lily textual format to allow Lily to reproduce it in musical
notation.
I am currently working with a cataloging project at the British
Library which is recording all musical manuscripts between the years
1600 and 1800, I have developed an application for them to data input
and manage the manuscripts. The information supplied with each
manuscript sometimes comes with an "incipit" for the beginning of the
music. Here is an example of an entire incipit pulled from the
record for Sonata 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach:
''4G{3G FbEDC'BA5 BG}{8GxF+}{3FEDEFGA''5C'B}/''8{C+3C5DC'3B''C}
{6.Ct'5B''C6D'A}'' 8G'3-{G5AB''CD}{8b E'B}/{6BA''bED}8-{BxF}
{6D3DbEDC'B''5C'A}{3BxFGDbE''5DC'B''CC'B''C}/
I would like to convert this to Lily textual notation so that Lily
can then reproduce it in musical notation so regular users of the web
catalogue can just click a link and run this up into Lilypond. My
main problem right now is that while I am a good developer I have
only just begun learning about music and see this as being a real
problem. I would like to hear from anybody on this matter and whether
or not I am spitting into the wind on this one given my dire lack of
knowledge of music. I would also like to find out if anyone else has
had a stab at this kind of thing. Finally a few pointers as to where
to start looking in the extensive programmers docs would be very useful.
Kind regards,
Chad.
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