Re: Fw: Vocal music

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin, you wrote Friday, October 03, 2008 8:42 AM


> 2008/10/2 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
>
> I wish we could have a "common notation" section that would deal with
> the voice as an instrument (for instance, the parlato notehead example
> is quite good; we could also add the
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=370 snippet, etc.)
>
> This "common notation" section would also mention the use of lyrics,
> and refer to lyric-specialized further sections:
>
> 2.1.1 Common notation for vocal music
>  References for vocal music
>     (noteheads, characters' names etc)
>  References for lyrics
>     (points to NR 2.1.2, 2.1.3, LM 2.4 etc)
>  Vocal-specific staff notation
>     (ancient clefs, incipits, whatever)

This is good.  I'm very happy with this.

> 2.1.2 Entering lyrics
>    (all sections thereof)

(but excluding References for vocal music)

> 2.1.3 Aligning lyrics to a melody
>    (all sections thereof)
>
> 2.1.4 Stanzas
>    (all sections thereof)

I'm happy with these too.

> 2.1.5 Specific styles of vocal music
>    Opera
>    Songs
>    Chants
>    Ancient
>    (gregorian, whatever; may point back to 2.1.1 Vocal-specific staff 
> notation)
>    (etc)

OK.  I think this satisfies my objective, provided
that 2.1.5 has a menu and the subsections like Opera
are @unnumberedsubsubsec's with nodes to make them
visible in the ToC.

> I am confident that we will eventually find a good solution :-)

We have :)  Let's go with this!  I like the section
names and the structure is now clearly extensible,
with obvious places for adding new material as Lily
(or music) develops - that was my objective in pressing
for a References section and a place for different
(and new) styles.

> Cheers,
> Valentin

Trevor