Hello Carl, I engrave scores for a colleague who is a prominent representative of the New Complexity School. Recently, with the advent of people such as Phantomas here (Thanks, Urs! For this person who insults us takes the cowardly approach of hiding behind anonymity, against all conventions of mailing list communities) the intent of the New Complexity founders seems to have been distorted into self indulgent complexity for its own sake, resulting in unplayable scores of no real artistic value. To this extent, since the concept has been devalued and polluted, most New Complexity composers now distance themselves from this term. One can see why. We have a good (bad?) example here.
But I just wanted to mention that in my work over the last couple of years I have been able to develop an extensive library of Scheme code and various extensions that enable me to set music that is only partly similar to the Common Era period notation that lilypond excels in. It is a tribute to the extraordinary excellence of lilypond that it can be made to create scores of a type never originally envisioned, with a high degree of beauty. I am also at great pains to point out that I could never have built up this library without the kind generosity and open heartedness of the skilled list members here: Thomas Morley, David Kastrup, Urs Liska, David Nalesnik, Simon Albrecht, David Wright, Kieran MacMillan, and many others (pardon me for omitting names!). Without their unstinting help I could not have achieved the excellence in my engraving that people comment on so positively. This sort of result takes a lot of effort, but success can be achieved. This is a valuable and precious community. Those like Phantomas who do not understand this are free to start their own communities. Perhaps they should. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+andrew.bernard=gmail....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2016 11:50 AM To: mclaren <metachroma...@gmail.com>; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8 If you look at the founding documents for LilyPond, you will see that LilyPond was not created to be a tool for representing New Complexity scores. In fact, the essay says: "LilyPond is inspired by traditional manual engravings published by European music publishers in and towards the end of the first half of the twentieth century, including Bärenreiter, Duhem, Durand, Hofmeister, Peters, and Schott. This is sometimes regarded as the peak of traditional musical engraving practice. As we have studied these editions we have learned a great deal about what goes into a well-engraved score, and the aspects that we wanted to imitate in LilyPond.": LilyPond's target is traditional musical engraving. Anything else is gravy. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
