Hi. Peter Mogensen wrote: >> - representing snare drum notes. (Ruffs, rolls and flams). The >> current layout is acceptable, but the it's a hack. It would be >> better if Lilypond knew the correct musical concept. Tremolos in >> ruffs and rolls should not be aligned with beams. It's annoying >> that grace notes needs to be phantom duplicated in other voiced in >> repeats, but I can see that's a know bug. Anyway, the period >> between the to beats of a flam is so short that grace notes >> doesn't give the correct timing.
Mats Bengtsson replied: > Judging from the mails on the mailing list, there hasn't been that > many people using LilyPond for percussion earlier. At least not > people with sufficient competence to realize these problems. Even if > you have described the problems in some earlier emails, I think it > would be nice if you could collect your request in a separate email > sent as a feature request to the bug-lilypond or lilypond-devel > mailing lists. Of course, it's even better if you can assist > yourself in implementing such features. My 50c: I've been using Lilypond for percussion notation (mostly snare drum and drum-set) and have found it produces good results. Tremolos in ruffs and rolls _can_ be aligned with beams. This is how it is done in Wilcoxon's All American Drummer (one of the seminal snare drum books). This is not to say that the alternate form mentioned above would not be useful. In drum notation it is important to distinguish between the double stroke or `open roll', where each stick strikes the drum twice, and the buzz roll, where each stick produces an indefinite number of strokes. Usually this is done today by indicating double stroke rolls with tremolo repeat symbols and buzz rolls with a z through the stem of the note in the same fashion as the / of the tremelo repeat. The z symbol is often similar to that found in rfz (with a smaller lower florish), otherwise it is more like a sans serif `z'. The `cursive' z is found more on old scores, so seems to be the way to go for lilypond if a 19C aethsetic is desired. In the same way these scores use a double-sharp sign to indicate cymbals, not a simple `x'. Sometimes the trill symbol is used to indicate a roll (especially of the buzz type) . This is, I think, more common in French typography. When there is only one species of roll in the work, such as in much orchestral music, the tremolo style roll is used throughout. In rudimental drumming (with measured double-stroke rolls) the tie connecting the beginning of the roll to it's end-stroke has a number at it's apex, indicating the number of pulsations. It would be nice (scary phrase huh?) if one could connect a markup to the mid-point of ties (both phrasing and otherwise) so this could be implemented. This would be useful for Schenkerian analysis as well. A similar feature for analysis brackets would be ace! Cheers, Bruce. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
