Re: Figured bass: accidentals in brackets

2011-05-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
On May 9, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Kurt Kroon wrote: > On May 9, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Francesco Spiga wrote: > >> Is it possible, in figured bass, having just an accidental in brackets >> instead of the whole figure? >> >> For example: >> >> [#]6 >>

Re: Figured bass: accidentals in brackets

2011-05-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
On May 9, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Francesco Spiga wrote: > Is it possible, in figured bass, having just an accidental in brackets > instead of the whole figure? > > For example: > > [#]6 > 4 > > I tried with this, but the result isn't nice: > > <\markup { [ \teeny \sharp ] \tiny \number 6} 4>

Re: Translating the Music Glossary (Was: Newbie question: tie between a and b)

2009-01-10 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2009/01/10 12:41 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:00:23PM -0800, Kurt Kroon wrote: >> On 2009/01/05 3:02 AM, "Zoltan Selyem" wrote: >> >>> I suppose the Music Glossary is made with lilypond-book. >> >&g

Re: Translating the Music Glossary (Was: Newbie question: tie between a and b)

2009-01-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2009/01/05 3:02 AM, "Zoltan Selyem" wrote: > > Hi, Hi I'm Kurt: I maintain the Glossary. > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> I'm afraid that the Music Glossary included in the LilyPond >> documentation does not yet include Hungarian, perhaps you would >> be interested in helping

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-11 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/10/07 4:41 PM, "Alexander Kobel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A List Apart explains how to implement this with cookies, but we would >> rather not use JavaScript: Cookies != JavaScript True, it's very easy to fiddle with them if you're using JavaScript, but they started as a server-side

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-01 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/10/01 8:30 AM, "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Kurt Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> -1, but I've got mad enough skillz to make a user style sheet. That way, I >> can make it look how

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-01 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/09/30 3:45 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2008 schrieb John Mandereau: >> On 2008/09/30 14:04 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: >>> Well done:) I still prefer Patrick's style and wish it were th

Preferred term in Italian (for Glossary)

2008-09-16 Thread Kurt Kroon
For all you native (or completely fluent) Italian speakers: Since it is grammatically incorrect to say "crescendo al niente" to mean "increase in volume, starting from nothing", which would be more correct: * crescendo _da_ niente OR * crescendo _dal_ niente? Thanks! Kurt __

Re: daily summary

2008-09-14 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/09/12 1:19 PM, "Stefan Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear lilypond users, > since a couple of day I don't get the [daily] summary of the user-group any > more. Is it a problem I share with others? > Yes: the list postmaster is aware of the issue and has already contacted the GNU p

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X "Tiger"?

2008-09-12 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/09/10 4:11 AM, "John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/09/09 21:31 -0700, Kurt Kroon wrote: > >> I'm getting an error when I try to update a file to v.2.11.57 on Mac OS X >> "Tiger", running on a G4 PowerBook. (The file wor

convert-ly broken on Mac OS X "Tiger"?

2008-09-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
I'm getting an error when I try to update a file to v.2.11.57 on Mac OS X "Tiger", running on a G4 PowerBook. (The file works fine in v.2.10.33, though I need to do some more tweaks to fix some minor layout issues.) Here's the console message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applicat

Re: (ot) Computer-assisted musical instrument tutoring: thesis complete

2008-08-23 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/08/23 12:13 AM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thesis defense went very well, I've finished all > corrections, and have submitted all the paperwork. I'm leaving > for Belfast in a few hours. I'll have email access, but no git > access any more. Congratulations! > I'l

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-08-18 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/08/18 2:52 PM, "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... unfortunately, it's not clear from the regression tests for ancient music > since they are so small and the change in spacing is barely visible unless you > have a fair sized example. I happen to have a fair-sized example at h

Re: How to add double barlines to a gregorian chant?

2008-08-11 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/07/29 8:04 AM, "Dominic Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello! I don't know if anyone else has answered this -- I haven't been getting digests for the past week or so -- so I figured I should toss my hat into the discussion ... especially since I have some recent experience in

Re: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/05/12 2:20 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:19:15 -0700 > Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We still have two "entry-level" positions: > > Sorry, my mad rush to cancel the message failed. > > We have three "entry-level" positions: >

White Baroque notation (was: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34)

2008-04-09 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/04/09 3:45 PM, "Karl Hammar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Trevor Daniels schrieb: > ... >>> .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) >> Karl: >> >> We don't have lilypond examples of this. I have seen this in a Novello >> score for Purcells Dido. So I suggest we drop this for the moment. >

For your edification: meters

2008-03-11 Thread Kurt Kroon
Here's what I've come up with from the discussion about meter, poly and otherwise. Let me know what you think. K [Sending the SVG source: the listdad bounced my first message because it was too big.] Meter - Venn diagram (plain).svg Description: Binary data ___

Re: GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-29 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/02/28 11:54 PM, "Anh Hai Trinh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * compound time sig -- this is a well established term refering to meter such as 6/8, 9/8, 6/4, etc. in contrast to simple meters such as 3/8, 3/4, etc. >> >> I just wanted to point out here that coumpond time signa

Re: GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-29 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/02/28 11:34 PM, "Anh Hai Trinh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I was being lazy. The Harvard dict 4th ed. defines > >> Polymeter. The simultaneous use of two or more meters. > > and there you have it. The term "sequential polymeter" is a contradiction. The *New* Harvard Dictionary of M

Re: GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-28 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/02/28 6:12 PM, "Anh Hai Trinh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have never heard the term polymeter. It does not show up in Grove Music > Online (actually once but refering to poetic meter), not a good sign! Wow ... and I don't have $295 in couch cushion change to spend (every year) on a

Re: Additive time signatures

2008-02-28 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/02/28 1:30 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Kroon wrote: >> \version "2.10.33" >> #(define (compound-time grob one two three num) >> (interpret-markup >>(ly:grob-layout grob) >>'(((baseline-sk

Additive time signatures (was: GDP ... complex meters)

2008-02-27 Thread Kurt Kroon
> (I'm not sure if one can extend this last one in LilyPond to more complex > examples, like when the numerator is an additive expression, and the > denominator is a single digit, e.g. (3+2+3)/8.) I was mistaken ... it *is* possible to extend the syntax (which seems completely reasonable, in retro

Re: GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-27 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/02/16 12:48 PM, "Kurt Kroon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on the Glossary for the GDP, and I'm stuck -- so, I'm canvassing > the list. Wow ... it's too bad no one here has any strong opinions on the matter. So, since I started the

Re: GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-27 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/26/08 5:39 AM, "Palmer, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Kurt - > > When I brought up "my" definition, it certainly was not intended to be > exclusive (as in the only definition). Nor did I perceive it that way. > I was trying to point out that there was an alternative meaning to po

GDP glossary question: complex meters

2008-02-25 Thread Kurt Kroon
BACKGROUND We now have a number of different terms to refer to several closely related concepts: * polymeter * polymetric time signature * double time signature * compound time signature ( Elsewhere -- just to add them to the mix -- I've seen: * mixed meter / mixed time signatures * additive tim

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/17/08 3:01 PM, "Simon Dahlbacka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/18, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 schrieb Simon Dahlbacka: >>> > FWIW, it seems that Finnish is the only? language that includes the >>> > "note/rest" part. > >> >Ahm, no, in German

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/17/08 2:44 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahm, no, in German we also say > "ganze Note" (whole) > "halbe Note" (half) > "Viertelnote" (quarter) > "Achtelnote" (eighth) > "Sechzehntelnote" or "16tel-Note" (sixteenth) > "Zweiunddreißigstelnote" or "32tel-Note" (32th) > "Vi

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/17/08 1:09 PM, "Risto Vääräniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > More stuff: > Quarter notes and rests seem to be named as neljännesosanuotti and > neljännesosatauko in the glossary. They are understandable but more > common words are neljäsosanuotti and neljäsosatauko. Common as in: * "

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/17/08 12:15 PM, "Risto Vääräniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Kurt, >> What the ... Finnish words for 128th note > 128-osanuotti (1/128-osanuotti) > (yksi)sadaskahdeskymmeneskahdeksasosanuotti > > Breakup: > sadas = 100th, > kahdeskymmenes = 20th (2th (deliberate), 10th), > kahdeksas

Re: GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Kroon
>> ... >> >> What the Dutch, Danish, Finnish and Swedish words for 128th- and 256th-notes >> and -rests? I was able to get the note names for English (both flavors), French, Spanish, Italian and German elsewhere. That's why I only asked for the names in Dutch, Danish, Finnish and Swedish only.

GDP: What term do you use? (redux)

2008-02-16 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/16/08 12:48 PM, "Kurt Kroon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on the Glossary for the GDP, and I'm stuck -- so, I'm canvassing > the list. ... Oh, yeah ... I was also wondering: What the Dutch, Danish, Finnish and Swedish words for 128th

GDP: What term do you use?

2008-02-16 Thread Kurt Kroon
I'm working on the Glossary for the GDP, and I'm stuck -- so, I'm canvassing the list. Here's the scenario: You've written a composition with a passage that needs to be played in a different octave. When you describe it (this passage) to another musician, what term do you use? And do you us

Re: Part 2 of 2 -- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches 2008-01-26

2008-02-02 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2/2/08 5:26 PM, "Kurt Kroon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/26/08 9:28 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Final call for comments on NR 1.1 Pitches. Please note that this >> is our "demonstration" chapter, whic

Part 1 of 2 -- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches 2008-01-26

2008-02-02 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 1/26/08 9:28 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Final call for comments on NR 1.1 Pitches. Please note that this > is our "demonstration" chapter, which will form the guidelines for > the rest of the NR. So if there's anything that you don't like > about the general layout and

Re: Tons de psaume

2008-01-27 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 1/27/08 9:03 AM, "LEDOCQ-BOCCART" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, > > Kurt Kroon a écrit : >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation-t >> emplates#Ancient-notation-templates >> > Ce lien aboutit à une

Re: Tons de psaume

2008-01-25 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 1/25/08 8:46 AM, "Sr Catherine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, > Je souhaite, avec Lilypond, écrire des tons de psaume, pour le chant de > l'office. Comme ceci (voyez l'exemple au fond de la page) : http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation-t emplates#A

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches

2008-01-14 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 1/14/08 10:19 AM, "Rune Zedeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Citat Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> - In Accidentals, I wouldn't refer to "Nordic and Germanic languages", >> since both Swedish, >> Danish, Norwegian and German use "-iss" and "-ess" (admittedly the >> same concept, bu

Re: Church Rests

2007-10-20 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 10/19/07 9:04 AM, "Eyolf Østrem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19.10.2007 (16:24), Francisco Vila wrote: >> 2007/10/19, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> In the section on multi-measure rests the manual talks about >>> "church rests", meaning the use of increasing numbers of >>> lit

Re: GDP: add "extender line" to the glossary?

2007-10-03 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 10/2/07 9:32 AM, "Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Kurt Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On 9/28/07 12:05 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Should we add "ex

Re: GDP: add "extender line" to the glossary?

2007-10-02 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 9/28/07 12:05 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we add "extender line" to the glossary? Is this a real musical > term, or a made-up lilypond term? Any vocalists want to comment? I've found a couple references: In a set of songs published by A-R Editions in their Musi