On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:11:32PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > I'm going to step in here, perhaps where wise men fear to tread. > > The LilyPond music glossary isn't intended to be a definitive music > dictionary, is it?
Nope, not at all. > So do we care what reference concert pitch uses? Does it matter if it's > A=440, or A=445, or A=450? Absolutely not. Frankly, the MG is aimed at people who wouldn't recognize the difference between 440 Hz and 450 Hz anyway. > 1) Concert pitch is established relative to some frequency standard. > 2) Transposing instruments use notation relative to some other frequency > standard, such that a C in the transposing instrument notation is the same > frequency as the transposing instrument's note in concert pitch. Yikes, that's a confusing way of explaining it. I'd just say "The pitch produced by playing a note on a transposing instrument is not the same the pitch produced by playing that note on a piano. If the transposing instrument plays a C, then the resulting pitch is the same as a piano's Bb, Eb, or some other note. The resulting note (instrument C = piano NOTE) is called the ``transposing instrument's note''". Why bring frequencies into it at all? They'll only confuse non-technical people -- the very people that the MG is aimed at. > It seems to me that all the rest of the information is more than is needed > for the LilyPond glossary; it's available in some other music dictionary. Anyway, the music glossary is currently the domain of Kurt; let's see what he has to say about it. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
