The Ab's sound horribly out of tune, as if they were meantone G#'s. Kees ----- Original Message ----- From: Torsten Anders <torstenand...@gmx.de> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 4:27 pm Subject: Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Dear Joseph, > > This notation is explain in detail in a paper that is part of > the font > distribution itself at > > http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/HE-font-2009.zip > > Several composers whose work is listed at http://plainsound.org > actively use this notation, including for large-scale orchestral music > (!), e.g., > > http://www.plainsound.org/pdfs/sinfonie.pdf > http://www.plainsound.org/music/sinfonie.m3u > > It might be fun to listen to a retuning of Johann Sebastian Bach's > RICERCAR (Musikalisches Opfer 1) while reading the notation (it is > great and crazy :) > > http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/JSBRicercar.pdf > > http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/audio/JSBRicercar.html > Anyway, if you have further questions don't hesitate to ask. > > Best > Torsten > > PS: The code I just send it is already pretty much cleaned up if you > want to use it for a doc snippet. > > > On 09.09.2009, at 23:32, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > > Torsten Anders wrote: > >> Thank you very very much for your help! The output is now almost > >> perfect as you can see see in the two examples below. The much > >> improved spacing of the first example is solely due to the > code you > >> suggested. > > > > Dear Torsten, > > > > I'm really pleased to see your work on this as right now I'm working > > on > > extending the Lilypond docs' content on notating contemporary > music -- > > one of the topics I'm about to start writing up is microtonal > > notation. > > > > I'm not at all familiar with this notation or its logic or > history, so > > it would be great if you would consider either writing some > > documentation yourself or exchanging a few emails to help me > write up > > appropriate info on this. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > -- Joe > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user