On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, "Anthony W. Youngman" <lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk> said:
>>So do we care what reference concert pitch uses? Does it matter if it's >>A=440, or A=445, or A=450? > > It does matter that the reference is accurate. it also matters that the 'Standard' is not always observed; especially for the music of Mozart and earlier, which is very much of interest to us and our users. >>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. !?! the concept of transposed notation is never easy to explain, I dont thnk it is possible to do it briefly. Much easier concept to introduce from an historical perspective, given a couple of whys to hang things on makes all much more easily understood. >>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. I tried to find a list of transposing instruments in my home library, nada. If we do it and get it right it will be a service to our users; and to ourselves should we ever create a part extraction from score feature. > But a little extra information always helps. hear! hear! Yes, new concepts sometimes need a bit of dancing around to be fully assimilated. > And, while I don't want to plug my instrument as an example, I've come > across too many cases here with lilypond and elsewhere where people > don't understand how to correctly notate transposing instruments, that I > think a bit of extra information is important. fully agree. -- Dana Emery _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
