That's terrific! We should get in touch privately about the library stuff.
Urs Am 12. Oktober 2014 14:06:17 MESZ, schrieb Piaras Hoban <phoba...@googlemail.com>: >Hi all, > >I'm a bit late to the party here but hope I can contribute something. > >About two years ago I made the switch to using Lilypond exclusively as >I >was getting tired of exporting pdfs with basic music notation and >overlaying graphics in Illustrator or some such. This was a real pain >when >doing parts or making even the smallest of changes. Since then I've >used >lilypond for a lot of pieces, all of which have some idiosyncratic >notational devices. There's very little I haven't been able to >implement >successfully in lilypond (really just 1 thing that still evades me... >customised barlines aligning with first beat of a measure...). > >I thought it might be interesting for those wondering what's possible >in >lilypond to see some examples from the field. I've put together a page >collating those things I've done in the past year or so. Many of these >notational devices seem to be fairly standardized nowadays; or at least >the >symbols appear consistently, even if the interpretation of their >meaning >can vary a lot. > >It would be great to develop a contemporary notation library for >lilypond >making these notations readily available to any user, I'm not sure what >that would involve but I know it could be a major selling point for >lilypond in the contemporary music world. > >For completeness sake here's index of what you see in the linked PDF >(naturally eveything you see here is generated using lilypond alone): > >1) Split-stem chords/clusters >2) Stemmed glissando >3) Bezier glissando w/arrowhead >4) Variable width bezier glissando >5) Vibrato with variable/random period and slope >6) Interruptive polyphony >7) Lachenmann pressed bow >8) Billone beat notation >9) Pencil line emulation (after Charlie Sdraulig) >10) Sciarrino style jet-whistle >11) Woodwind fingering staff >12) Carin Levine style flute multiphonics >13) Klavierstuck X proof-of-concept >14) Sciarrino tremolo (with bezier hairpins) >15) Stockhausen cluster-glissando >16) Notation from a work of my own for violin > >Hope this might be illuminating for others; lilypond is great for this >kind >of stuff. > >best wishes, > >piaras hoban > > > notation_sampler.pdf ><https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0LUzVrFDYH8S0hQN0hLZHdnT2s/edit?usp=drive_web> > > >On 12 October 2014 06:22, SoundsFromSound <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Urs Liska wrote >> > Am 09.10.2014 06:31, schrieb Marco Bagolin: >> >> The notation contemporary music is so diverse, I know. >> >> I wonder if actually Lilypond has commands for drawing graphic >> >> symbols, as line circle, curve, square, circle, etc... >> > >> > A nice thing about LilyPond's approach is that once you have >invented >> > something you can make it available as a command so it can easily >be >> > reused. You can also make such commands process arguments so they >can be >> > versatile and context-dependent. >> > As an example have a look at the attached image. This is what >someone on >> > the list (Piaras Hoban) came up with when I asked for a function to >> > write a stemmed glissando notation. The underlying function is >quite >> > complicated but you can use it by simply writing >> > >> > \stemmedGlissando #'(15 . #f) c'4 >> > >> > to tell LilyPond that the next glissando will have 15 stems and no >(the >> > #f) trailing grace note to indicate the target note. >> > >> > Stemmed-glissando.png (34K) >> > < >> >http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/167377/0/Stemmed-glissando.png> >> ; >> >> Urs, >> >> Is there more information on that stemmed gliss function? I'd be >interested >> to read more on that for LilyPond. Thanks! >> >> Ben >> >> >> >> >> ----- >> composer | sound designer >> LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond >> -- >> View this message in context: >> >http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Contemporary-Music-Notation-tp167324p167437.html >> Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >lilypond-user mailing list >lilypond-user@gnu.org >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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