Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:31:35AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Although, it just struck me, what does MIDI do when it gets a > dynamic it doesn't recognize? Maybe it's written somewhere; I > haven't checked. MIDI doesn't get "dynamics" in terms of mffpf. Rather, note events have a include "ve

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/7/25 Jonathan Wilkes : > There's something in NR 3.5.5 that describes how to control MIDI behavior > for (custom) dynamics.  But if I just use make-dynamic-script to print out > "ff" or "z" in the score, and I don't use any other dynamics, > it gets softer when the custom dynamic is u

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-06/msg00417.html Oh, I haven't played around with make-dynamic-script yet. I guess it's not necessary to have a pre-defined command for "pp" and the like, since it's so easy to add these extreme dynamics as needed. Thanks for the l

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-25 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > I don't know if this needs an additional command, but in > Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony there is a "pp" (6 p's) during > the clarinet solo at the end of the exposition. Yes, and I mentioned the on the last page of book 2 of the Ligeti etudes. Graham proposed a

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
I don't know if this needs an additional command, but in Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony there is a "pp" (6 p's) during the clarinet solo at the end of the exposition. What's funny is that he only uses "ff" at the beginning of the next section, which is one of the loudest orchestral moments I k

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mark Polesky wrote Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:29 AM We all okay with this patch? LGTM Of course it's a new command and a syntax change; I don't know if that means some special process has to be taken; updating the parser, etc. I have no idea, actually. Let me know. Nothing else is needed,

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Polesky
We all okay with this patch? Of course it's a new command and a syntax change; I don't know if that means some special process has to be taken; updating the parser, etc. I have no idea, actually. Let me know. Thanks. - Mark 0001-Add-dynamic-script-f-update-docs.patch Description: B

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: on the last page of book 2 of the Ligeti etudes. Sweet Mao...! Not that I condone that sort of ridiculous notation. Yeah, me neither. And if somebody really wants that, they can look at dynamic-init.ly and figure out how to force lilypond to

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/6/19 Graham Percival : > If you'd like to add f for consistency's sake, I'm happy to > commit it -- but please also add a comment to dynamic-init that we > really don't want more than 5 letters.  :) The curious thing about this is that there's already an entry for f in absolute-volum

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-19 Thread David Kastrup
Jay Anderson writes: > See page 86 of the first file and page 44 of the second file at the > Andante non tanto. The strings and the woodwinds are at the full f > while the brass and percussion are only at :). Reminds me of that rehearsal joke where the conductor stops the orchestra, fro

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-18 Thread Jay Anderson
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:33:18PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: >> >> dynamic-scripts-init.ly >> >> why is there p but no f? > > IIRC I asked this 3-4 years ago, and the answer was that somebody >

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:21:29PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote: > > > > why is there p but no f? > > > > IIRC I asked this 3-4 years ago, and the answer was that somebody > > had seen p in the literature (a Tchaik symphony

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: > > why is there ppppp but no f? > > IIRC I asked this 3-4 years ago, and the answer was that somebody > had seen p in the literature (a Tchaik symphony, maybe?), but > nobody had seen a f. on the last page of book 2 of the Ligeti

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:33:18PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > dynamic-scripts-init.ly > > why is there p but no f? IIRC I asked this 3-4 years ago, and the answer was that somebody had seen p in the literature (a Tchaik symphony, maybe?), but nobody had seen a ff

ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Polesky
dynamic-scripts-init.ly why is there p but no f? - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel