Re: organ - off topic

2020-10-01 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Some organs have a toy stop emulating bagpipes, which is a single lever that activates two drone pipes (reeds): they are either on continuously, or off. And organ tuners commonly use a key weight to depress individual keys while they are tuning, if they have to tune without an assistant. There a

Re: Humdrum **kern and LilyPond

2020-06-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
A two-way converter would interest me a lot! As I said, my converter is quite basic (dare I confess it’s a shell script), because it’s for a very specific repertoire, so it makes lots of assumptions as a short-cut. > On 30 Jun 2020, at 21:45, Urs Liska wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 30.06.2020, 1

Re: Humdrum **kern and LilyPond

2020-06-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
correction of same by hand. I threw a big party when my main corpus (nearly 500 files) was encoded. Cheers, Frauke > On 30 Jun 2020, at 19:25, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, 19:09 Jacques Menu, wrote: > Hello Frauke, > > How do you produce the Humdr

Re: Humdrum **kern and LilyPond

2020-06-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Hi, I use Humdrum a lot, and have written a basic hum2lily conversion tool, which I am using to prepare my edition of the Buxheim Organ Book. It’s quite specialised for my particular application, and not terribly sophisticated at the moment. Cheers, Frauke > On 30 Jun 2020, at 16:28, Jacques

Re: Lilypond on OS X Catalina

2019-10-18 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
What a very, very silly situation, and I feel for all those who are involved at ground level in trying to sort it out. I switched from a Debian laptop to a Mac one this summer, because I need to be able to use some proprietary stuff that’s not available, and I naïvely assumed that I could be hap

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

2018-03-24 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
do it for you. Your procedural memory needs to be trained. On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, 21:42 Flaming Hakama by Elaine, < ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote: > >>> From: Tom Cloyd >> To: Frauke Jurgensen >> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:24:48 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Is lilyp

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

2018-03-23 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
I would agree with those who counsel paper and pencil for the compositional process itself. I would also argue that developing the link between notation and your inner ear is extremely helpful if you're going to use notation, and that software with playback features can be counterproductive in gett

Re: [OT] Linux Users

2017-11-18 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
I do! Plain TeX and LaTeX. On 18 Nov 2017 7:29 am, "Brett M. Gilio" wrote: How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any of you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather than graphical tools? BMG -- Brett M. Gilio B.S. Biological Sciences B.M. Music

Re: Counterpoint (was: request for programming advice)

2016-11-08 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
In short, yes, such things exist, though not in Lilypond. I am a computational musicologist that collaborates in developing tools for analysing counterpoint. We've got tools like this to use in Humdrum or Music21. I think the Lilypond implementation would not be trivial (as Urs says), but I'll talk

Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

2016-05-25 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
The reference pitch wasn't standardised until quite late in history, and there were many local variations (some related to organ pitch). If you were a composer writing in a place with a low pitch standard, you might write the parts higher on paper. Thus Purcell's theatrical music (female roles sung

Re: Unknown marking in Roman print (1710)

2016-05-21 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
On my phone, it looks like a blobby lower-case t, which makes sense in context. On 21 May 2016 15:06, "Richard Shann" wrote: > Attached is a bit of an early 18th print (*) using movable type - does > anyone on the list know what the sign that looks like an E is? > > Richard > (*) > http://imslp.o

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-20 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Speaking as a theorist here: while there are automatic chord analysis functions in many notation programs, in my experience, they are all not yet sufficiently aware of context (upon which a harmonic analysis is heavily dependent) and analysis style. It's quite easy to label chords as to the pure ve

Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-17 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
ually need at the end to think constructively about the best way of getting there, if you know what I mean. Frauke On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Graham King wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 15:38 +0100, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: > > I'm working on a bigger project that may involve

Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-16 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Ah, thanks! That makes perfect sense. If I understand correctly, it would, however, mean inputting everything in halved note values? That might get messy, once ligatures are involved... On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 16.05.2015 um 16:38 schrieb Frauke Jurgen

Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-16 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Thank you, that first thing worked perfectly. At the moment, I still have the parts in score (to check they're all at least the same length, which is a feature sadly missing in some of the manuscripts I'm dealing with). I'm bullying the ligatures into submission (such as when the second semibreve

Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-16 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
in mensural music, but the normal > staff line in modern. Let me know if you're interested. > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > - Original Message - From: Frauke Jurgensen > To: Phil Holmes > Cc: LilyPond User Group > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 3:38 PM > Subje

Re: Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-16 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
relevant when setting music. FWIW, Apel says that ancient > "circle" time (tempus perfectum) maps to modern 3/4 time. > > Under 1.1.3, "Clef", the Notation Reference tells us that "Clef names > containing non-alphabetic characters must be enclosed in quotes&quo

Mensural notation: 2 questions

2015-05-16 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Hello all, I suspect I'm just being a bit thick...typesetting some mensural notation, and having an issue with the mensural signs/time sigs. It looks like the definitions of these in terms of modern time signatures are in half values; e.g., "Circle" maps on to 3/2, when it should map on to 3/1. M

Re: Oboe advise needed - woodwind diagrams

2013-05-13 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
he > Clarinet diagrams, making them complete, removing some of the problems. And > in that process I also generated all the others and wondered at this. > > Regards, > Wim. > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 15:34 , Frauke Jurgensen wrote: > > I don't see an attached diag

Re: Oboe advise needed - woodwind diagrams

2013-05-13 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
I don't see an attached diagram? Many oboes do have a LH F, which is a little knobbly one sort of on top of the others. If I could see it, I'll take a look. Since your email is continental, I assume you're looking for Conservatoire key system. I can help with that. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:23 P

Re: problem with OS X 10.6.7 and Lily-PDFs

2011-04-01 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
This has happened to me in the past, and the problem goes away completely with a re-boot. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello James, > > thanks for your reply. > With the ats-rebuild still some things aren't right. If I randomly pick and > print a page out of my current

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Good question. I suspect I will be having a similar problem in the future...at the moment, I was thinking of using Sibelius's built-in OMR to try to convert a pdf. Anyone know of a better way? On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Shane Brandes wrote: > Does anyone have any experience converting lilyp

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Hmm, when I tried this, I got something like mensurstriche instead...but that must be because I was using a PianoStaff. When I get rid of the PianoStaff, I can get the (lack of space-occupying) bar lines I want, but attempts at creating a StaffGroup to give me back my curly brace have failed so far

unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Oddly, I'm dealing with the exact same problem just now! Like you, I've set a metre and then set the default bar line type to empty. Simply removing the Bar_engraver will lead to disaster, although it will make all the notes evenly spaced...The clefs on subsequent systems will disappear. Now sure

Re: no view because of mistakes?

2010-12-31 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Ah, I understand much better! The problem with the triplets is that most of the curly braces aren't closed properly; there seem to be 4 messages about that at the end of your excerpt (not familiar with Denemo at all). A nice feature of Vim (and some other editors) is that it will highlight braces'

Re: no view because of mistakes?

2010-12-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
When you compile the file, what does the output say? On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ludo Beckers wrote: > When I make mistakes, how do I know where they are? > I'm working on a tune that won't show the PDF-result and I haven't got a > clue where the wrong input is (possibly the tuplets, becaus

Re: Clarification of Gregorian Chant terminology

2010-12-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
be specific about the kind of notation... Not sure if that makes any kind of sense... regards, Frauke On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Marek Klein wrote: > 2010/12/30 Francisco Vila >> >> 2010/12/30 Frauke Jurgensen : >> > Why not call it >> > >>

Re: Clarification of Gregorian Chant terminology

2010-12-30 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Why not call it "Ligatures in square notation" or "Square Notation Ligatures"? That would remove both the neume and the also-problematic "Gregorian". Regards, Frauke On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: > James: > ... >> Likewise the term 'Gregorian Square Neume Ligatures', could

Re: making staves full of rests disappear in a full score

2010-12-28 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Thanks all! I just updated to 2.12.33, was using an ancient version where this didn't seem to exist yet...Problem solved! On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Frauke Jurgensen writes: > >> Hello all! >> >> I have a large orchestral score, in wh

making staves full of rests disappear in a full score

2010-12-28 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Hello all! I have a large orchestral score, in which individual instruments at times are resting for many pages. I would like these instruments to disappear (those staves not to be shown) on systems where they have nothing but rests. The only way I can think of to do this, is to create a new staf