Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread Alicuota618
Dear Matt, I dont compose. I arrange, mainly church music (choir, brass-choir, organ, piano) and theory (combining texts and music). Seldom using parts... The beginning was quite arduous, I had no idea of programmin and wanted to arrange directly in ly. Got it but then came Frescobaldi and changed

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 16:35 -0800, Matthew James Briggs wrote: > > I'm starting to wonder if I should just skip it and learn Lilypond > instead, thus my object-oriented world could output Lilypond code > instead of MusicXML. I think that would be very wise: IMHO MusicXML gives the impression of

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 22:22 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > To make it short: LilyPond has a totally different approach to > "extracting" parts. And I'm sure it will serve you well. You may also like to know that the Denemo music input program as well as putting parts in LilyPond variables can also gene

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread pls
Sounds like you might as well be interested in * http://www.projectabjad.org/ and * http://web.mit.edu/music21/. hth patrick On 09.01.2015, at 01:35, Matthew James Briggs wrote: > Thank you everyone for the info. Lilypond sounds totally awesome. > > Just a little more background because the

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Matthew James Briggs
Thank you everyone for the info. Lilypond sounds totally awesome. Just a little more background because there may be folks here with insight on these things (PM if not appropriate for the forum): One of my major goals is to generate musical material with an object-oriented representation of musi

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-01-08 04:10 PM, Matthew James Briggs wrote: Hello, I just joined this list because I was searching unsuccessfully for information about Lilypond's features for extracting and producing individual parts from a score. Does Lilypond have features akin to Finale's linked-parts? I suspect

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Shane Brandes
HI Matt, Welcome to Lilyponding. Your missive reads as though you can wrap your head around things well enough. Sometimes it is dangerous to think about things in terms of Finale methods. Of course parts can be extracted. In this case, parts are a thing of formal structure. My advice to proceed, a

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Noeck
Hi Matt, if you mean "part" like the music of one instrument or singer, for sure this is possible: You can store each such part in a variable (say flute and piano) and then you can print one of them: \flute or \piano or you can print the combined score of the two: << \flute \piano >> Thi

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
elp: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files -David - Original Message - From: "Matthew James Briggs" To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 4:10:15 PM Subject: Information about Parts Hello, I just joined this list bec

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
To make it short: LilyPond has a totally different approach to "extracting" parts. And I'm sure it will serve you well. Basically you store your music in variables (e.g. one variable for each "part", say "violin 1" or "soprano"). Then you put them together in a \score { } expression, stacking a

Information about Parts

2015-01-08 Thread Matthew James Briggs
Hello, I just joined this list because I was searching unsuccessfully for information about Lilypond's features for extracting and producing individual parts from a score. Does Lilypond have features akin to Finale's linked-parts? I suspect my searching was unsuccessful since the work "part" is u