Hello Andrew and David, Thanks a lot, I had mistaken Humdrum for Helmholtz!
JM > Le 18 avr. 2021 à 19:22, David Zelinsky <dzp...@dedekind.net> a écrit : > > Jacques Menu <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> writes: > >> I seem to have read somewhere that the notation such as c’4.. has been >> inspired by another well-known syntax, maybe refering to Humdrum. >> >> Does anyone know more about this? > > I don't know the history of Lilypond's development. But the notation is > very similar to that devised by Helmholtz in the 1860's. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation > > > -David >
