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Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation


From: Joseph Wakeling
Subject: Re: Lilypond's internal pitch representation and microtonal notation
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:08:13 +0200
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On 09/20/2010 05:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
>> For arrowed quarter-tones the notation is described (and recommended) in
>> Kurt Stone's book "Music Notation in the Twentieth Century".
> 
> Excellent reference!  That book is frequently quoted on this list, so
> this should settle any question of "is it necessary".

Yes. :-)  He also explicitly highlights the enharmonic equivalence issue
we discussed.

> One scan should be fine.  The first step is to convince people that
> the representation needs to be extended, and Stone should be
> sufficient for that.  The next step is for somebody actually code it.

Sure.  I'll try and follow up with Hans separately, just to explore his
code and ideas and see if they might be useful here.

Thanks & best wishes,

    -- Joe



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