It is actually perfectly reasonable for a person completely new to
notating music for this to not make sense. The purpose of the
documentation is to provide information about how lilypond prints
music. Other resources are necessary to provide information about the
difference, both written and sounded of a note and the various
accidentals that can change a note.
One big (in my opinion, reasonable) assumption made by the LilyPond
documentation is that anyone using the program will be familiar with
musical terms and what they mean. Hopefully in english, but there's
even a glossary for foreign language speakers.
On 25.08.2009, at 10:50, Simon Mackenzie wrote:
Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general
this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me.
Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time
I read this section in the learning tutorial.
As I said previously when I have time I'll have a shot at
articulating this more fully to aid my learning further and help
others who have been tripped up Accidental(ly).
Simon
On 25/08/2009, at 15:34, David Bobroff wrote:
As a follow-up, have the people with "unwanted accidentals" seen
this:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/
Accidentals-and-key-signatures#Key-signatures
...and is it not clear? The last example on that page shouldn't
be any less clear than the example I gave.
-David
David Bobroff wrote:
Correct. *ALL* pitches in the input *must* be explicitly given.
The key signature assignment tells LilyPond how to display the
pitches. For exmaple; 'e' *always* means e-natural no matter
what the key signature is.
-David
Simon Mackenzie wrote:
Hi guys correct me if I am wrong.
The g minor chord has two flats Eb & Bb which need to be marked
as es and bes in Lilypond other wise the Accidental_engraver
sees them as naturals in the g minor chord, hence the natural
symbol for any unmarked E or B note in your music.
Just trying to see if I understand this all correctly?
How did I do?
Simon
On 25/08/2009, at 01:39, Sona wrote:
I'm new to Lilypond and the list. So far the code is pretty
intuitive, but I am stumped by the way accidentals work.
Several posts deal with this subject, but probably are beyond a
novice's ability to undertand.
I'm transcribing a modern piece with 2 flats in the key
signature (I've set \key g \minor). It's rather atonal, though,
so it seems Lilypond tries to correct pitch by turning every e-
flat and b-flat into a natural.
What code do I use to override this? The printed result should
have only 4 accidentals. Right now there are 37, and of course
the pitches are all off.
What do I put where in what part of the code? I can send my
page code, if it would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!
cleo
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