Re: Settings for bagpipe music

[Stephen]

Oh yeah, Sven

It is interesting that Sven is the goto man for preserving a great Scottish 
music tradition.

You could adapt the technique used for Atonal music in the Nicolas' 
atonicKey funtion as I modified it. put it in D major and supress the 
printing of the key signature with the line:

\override Score . KeySignature #'print-function = ##f

You would then have to put it in the key of D major in order to suppress C 
sharp and F sharp it think. I am not sure of the effect that renaming the 
pitch names has however.

Adding new pitch names to the list might be a good idea too:

(bb . ,(ly:make-pitch 0 6 FLAT))
(Bb . ,(ly:make-pitch 1 6 FLAT))

for instance.

I think removing the Auto Engraver is a mistake. You can just put everything 
in the key of D major to suppress the C and F sharp while still getting a 
flat if you need it.

I am repeating myself aren't I? To recap, my idea is to keep the key 
signature and accidental engraver and just suppress the printing of the key 
signature as a way to print flats when you need them.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Axelsson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:15 AM
Subject: Settings for bagpipe music


> I've been using Lilypond to write music for the Scottish highland bagpipe 
> for
> a while now, and have made a fairly complete package to handle the complex
> grace notes used. I suggest this should be included in the official
> distribution to save everyone from the hassle of doing it themselves.
>
> I've attached the settings file together with an example of the notation
> available. In case attachments are stripped, the same file can also be
> downloaded here:
> http://svenax.net/files/bagpipe.zip
>
> Bagpipe music is a bit special since it is written without a key signature
> even though it actually has a signature (D major). The way I deal with 
> this by
> removing the Key_engraver and Accidential_engraver might not be optimal 
> since
> there are instances (though very rare) where you do like to show 
> accidentials
> on certain notes. I provide a \flatten markup for those cases, but maybe 
> there
> is a better way?
> --
> Sven Axelsson


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