Am Samstag, 6. März 2010 08:47:56 schrieb David Raleigh Arnold: > Ideally the volume should be preset for each instrument according to > ratios expressing the relative natural loudness of the instrument, IOW > set it and forget it, and only velocity should be used for dynamics. That > is obviously the purpose of the design. Why fight it? No good can come > from twiddling the volume in the middle of the performance.
I know several choral pieces where the dynamics change on a single note. E.g. in Reutter's " Ecce Quomodo" there is a whole note with p on the first two beats and f on the last two beats. This cannot be expressed by velocity, which is modelled after a keyboard, but is unable to express dynamic changes other instruments are able to do. Similarly, an organ swell on a single note cannot be done with velocity, but only via volume. Cheers, Reinhod -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
