Shouldn’t this discussion be happening elsewhere? The relevance to Lilypond is what exactly?
best, jc > On Mar 20, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Jacques Menu Muzhic <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> > wrote: > > Hello Have, > > I don’t understand what you mean by square characters: can you make that more > clear? > > There are text editors you can use I guess for the parallel aspect of what > seems to be a measure-wise notation IIUC, i.e. those that offer block-mode > editing such as Win-EDT on Windows. > > There’s a tree structure in nearly all music, written or played: parts are > performed in parallel, each of them made of voices. The latter usually get > grouped into staves for reading and organisation commodity, and repeats, da > capos and codas add more structure to that. An organ music score is an > example of such a tree. > > All text notations used to represent trees have a difficult problem. MusicXML > is not meant to be used by composers or music aficionados, it is an exchange > format designed for use by computer applications. The order of the various > markups such as <part-list/> and <part-list/> is defined by a DTD. > > In the example below, the <note/> contains the sharp <accidental/>, but the > <p /> dynamic occurs before it. It could have been placed inside the <note/> > too, though. Such design choices were not made at random, there are reasons > behind them. > > <direction placement="below"> > <direction-type> > <dynamics> > <p /> > </dynamics> > </direction-type> > </direction> > <note> > <pitch> > <step>C</step> > <alter>1</alter> > <octave>4</octave> > </pitch> > <duration>16</duration> > <voice>1</voice> > <type>half</type> > <accidental>sharp</accidental> > </note> > > In this other example, there’s a partgroup containing two parts, one for each > flute, with respective parts « 1 » and « 2 » sharing a single staff as is > often the case in orchestral scores. > > </part-group> > <score-part id="P2"> > <part-name>Flutes</part-name> > <part-abbreviation>Fl.</part-abbreviation> > <score-instrument id="P2-I19"> > <instrument-name>Fl.</instrument-name> > </score-instrument> > <midi-instrument id="P2-I19"> > <midi-channel>2</midi-channel> > <midi-program>74</midi-program> > </midi-instrument> > </score-part> > <part-group number="2" type="stop"/> > <part-group number="2" type="start"> > <group-name>1 > 2</group-name> > <group-barline>yes</group-barline> > </part-group> > > And the horns sections is a sub-partgroup in this score, with 4 voices > grouped into two staves. MusicXML precisely is weird in this area BTW: it > does not represent a staff group (tree of groups) as a tree, by allows for « > intelaced groups », which is arguable: > <PastedGraphic-2.png> > > > How do you represent such complex structures with Premusic? > > JM > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
