Wols Lists writes:
>.. not only in the fact that concert pitch has a single-digit ISO
>standard to its credit!
Hexadecimal?
-- Johan
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On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 16:17 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Martin Tarenskeen writes:
>
> > ... but without using uppercase to make parsing by the computer
> > easier.
>
> Actually, it makes typing music easier.
>
> -- Johan
I made an editing script which used capitals in exactly
that way, and n
On 10/03/2013 17:35, David Kastrup wrote:
I have a hard time imagining what you'd be writing after \relative if
you can't even remember the name of middle C.
Without knowing at least_one_ absolute pitch, anchoring \relative will
be a challenge.
I simply crib the start of everything from previou
Wols Lists writes:
> On 10/03/13 02:40, Jim Long wrote:
>
>> Why is "a" A 220, and not A 440?
>
> It isn't :-)
It is.
> Read up on "concert pitch" - the wikipedia article is interesting, not
> only in the fact that concert pitch has a single-digit ISO standard to
> its credit!
>
> And oh, I thi
On 10/03/13 02:40, Jim Long wrote:
> Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
>
> My main observations are that it is piano-centric, with
> { c d e f g a b c' } being an intuitive sequence, while { a b c d
> e f g a' } is less logical. Mmm, well, maybe that's not
> piano-c
Martin Tarenskeen writes:
> ... but without using uppercase to make parsing by the computer
> easier.
Actually, it makes typing music easier.
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Jim Long:
> Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
Do you mean in the program Lilypond, I don't know.
> My main observations are that it is piano-centric, with
It's the other way around, the notes are music-centric and the
piano is a reasonable simplification of the scal
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Jim Long wrote:
Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
My main observations are that it is piano-centric, with
{ c d e f g a b c' } being an intuitive sequence, while { a b c d
e f g a' } is less logical. Mmm, well, maybe that's not
piano-centric,
Jim Long umpquanet.com> writes:
> Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
It is very similar to Helmholtz notation, from his book of 1863
"On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music"
The difference being that Hermann von Helmholtz used capi
Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
My main observations are that it is piano-centric, with
{ c d e f g a b c' } being an intuitive sequence, while { a b c d
e f g a' } is less logical. Mmm, well, maybe that's not
piano-centric, that's just music theory, C is the only
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