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Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals


From: Hans Aberg
Subject: Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:53:11 +0200

On 31 Aug 2009, at 19:50, Arne Peters wrote:

Using the QWERTY way (QWERTZ in German layout keyboard) does indeed work the
visual way in programs like MuseScore, and Sibelius 5.
Depending on the key signature, for example a keyboard stroke "d" gives
either "des "d" or "dis".

There is the following layout for diatonic (extended meantone) system, which is what the Western musical notation system describes:
    A#  B#  Cx  Dx  Ex
  A   B   C#  D#  E#  Fx  Gx  Ax  Bx
    Bb  C   D   E   F#  G#  A#  B#
      Cb  Db  Eb  F   G   A   B   C'# D'#
        Dbb Ebb Fb  Gb  Ab  Bb  C'  D'  E'
Transposition is by translation in this diagram. So the same scale, interval or chord (disregarding inversions) will have the same pattern but translated. Different scale degrees are on different / diagonals.

I have used it for playing music in Scala and Chuck in various tunings, like Pythagorean and quarter-comma meantone (which sets the major second to the interval ratio 5/4). It works just fine.

It might be good for note input, as it does not impose E12 enharmonic equivalence.

But it may not be a LilyPond proper question - one needs an editor or key-map that can generate note names in LilyPond code.

  Hans






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