People of LilyPond and/or MuseScore,
Over the recent millennium, clefs have evolved as letters of the alphabet in a
fancy clef-font. I have recently wanted to use clefs in the letters A and/or D.
The attached file in the Print Document Format (PDF) demonstrates 'my take' on
the generalized concept and demonstrates proof-of-concept using the LilyPond
software.
WANTS / ENCOURAGEMENTS
I encourage the people of LilyPond to post the attachment contents as a snippet
and hopefully to broaden the software to directly support A, B, D, and/or E
clefs.
I encourage the people of MuseScore to integrate A, B, D, and/or E clefs in
their own analogous fashion.
SOME DETAILS
My generalized concept is to have clefs for each of the letters in the set {A,
B, C, D, E, F, G}.
Clefs for C, F, and G already exist and are in common usage.
D
I found an attractive SVG graphic of this kind of d-clef created by Dr. Alex
HELLSTEN (mathes, FINLAND) and distributed using a creative commons license.
What I've re-created here is a single-filled-loop version of the shape which
has a lacuna where the indexed staveline crosses the gudgeon. I've called this
form of the clef "Delian" after Delia DERBYSHIRE (MA, mathes & music, ENGLAND)
who first realized the music of the BBC Doctor WHO theme. Dr. HELLSTEN may
want to more specifically name it or its variants himself.
Dr. HELLSTEN has been included in the send-list of this email.
A, B, E
I've created clefs in the letters A, B, and E and made them to work (along with
the D-clef) using the LilyPond software.
CONCLUSION
The details of all-the-above are documented in the attached file.
I felt driven to do this on account of the unfortunate resemblance of a clef in
common usage to a set of double bar-lines (the neutral clef in LilyPond, & the
var 1 percussion clef in MuseScore). I decided the natural first (1st) effort
should be to generalize the notion of clefs-as-letters for all the seven (7)
initial letters of the Roman alphabet.
For-the-band, I've redoubled my work in MuseScore, so I put out this
notion-as-news down both the LilyPond and MuseScore 'channels' at the same time.
Murray J. MacKenzie BSc CD1
corporal
3rd piper, THE CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDERS
CANADIAN ARMY
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7 x letters clefs snippet MacKENZIE 2024 05 22.pdf
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