Re: Numbering exercises; overriding defaults; points for clefs.

[Manuel]

Am 29/11/2006 um 12:46 schrieb Arvid Grøtting:

> Manuel <libros <at> limay.de> writes:
>
> > I take a different view on this matter. I think that painting was the
> > first way of writing, letters being a later development. The first
> > attempts to typesetting music were clumsy indeed, but even now, when
> > typeset music is quite good, no printed score can equal the beauty
> > of, say, Bach's handwriting.
>
> That may be true for Bach.  Allow me to introduce Grieg as a  
> counter-example.
> Many of his manuscripts are available here:
>
> http://www.bergen.folkebibl.no/grieg-samlingen/grieg- 
> samlingen_komposisjoner.html
>
> While his music is certainly excellent, I would not like Lilypond  
> to imitate his
> handwriting in any way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Arvid

Well, look at the title and first page of this Grieg:


http://www.bergen.folkebibl.no/cgi-bin/websok-grieg


(and thanks for the very interesting link to Grieg's music). His word  
writing is very beautiful. His music writing has a terrific rhythm,  
is very armonious, and manages in an impossible-but-real way to  
express the interpretation of the piece.

To be sure, no typesetting whatsoever should or could try to imitate  
it, for it follows no predeterminated, abstract-general rule.

Nevertheless, that was not, of course, my point. No, do not imitate  
ugly things, nor the hardly legible handwriting of certain  
manuscripts of Telemann or Vivaldi... but do look at nature and  
beauty as your teacher of reality.

Manuel




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