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Re: what about simplifying music notation?
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Paul Morris |
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Re: what about simplifying music notation? |
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Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:45:52 -0400 |
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Marc Weber wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to assign notes (c,d,e,..) natural numbers?
then define
could be:
---O- nr 16
---O- nr 12
---O- nr 8
---O- nr 4
---O- nr 0
to be always 4 semitones?
Hi Marc, If you still want to experiment with this kind of alternative
notation in LilyPond, here are a couple of snippets that will help:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=694
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=755
They show how to remap the vertical positions of the staff to regular
intervals (semitones, wholetones, or whatever you want). The
followingpage on the music notation project wiki collects more info on
how to use LilyPond with these kinds of alternative notations:
http://musicnotation.org/wiki/LilyPond
David Kastrup wrote:
The_only_ non-fringe (and you
might debate that) instrument I know that has controls_deliberately_
designed around a chromatic scale (note that string instruments have
their controls dictated by physics) is the chromatic button accordion.
Every_other_ instrument, even woodwinds and percussion, has its
controls designed around a diatonic scale, and where that scale is not C
major, the instrument is often written down in transposed notation.
For anyone who's curious, here's a listing of instruments that
have been designed to be key-neutral and scale-neutral. There are
saxophones, flutes, vibraphones, panpipes, string instruments,
keyboards, accordions, etc:
http://musicnotation.org/wiki/Isomorphic_Instruments
A benefit they offer is that, like voice or stringed instruments, once
you learn the pattern for one diatonic scale, it's the same pattern for
every diatonic scale. Whereas on a piano (based on C major), you need
to learn a different fingering for each scale/key. They may be more
"fringe" than other instruments, but I'm still interested. It seems like
it would be easier to learn to improvise on one of these.
Basically, one approach treats different diatonic scales/keys as
modifications of a built-in C major scale/key, the other sees diatonic
scales/keys as the same diatonic pattern, just starting from a different
note within a key-neutral chromatic series, like on a guitar.
Mike, thanks for sharing your script for using different note names.
Cheers,
Paul
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, (continued)
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Marc Weber, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Kastrup, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Marc Weber, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Kastrup, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Marc Weber, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Rogers, 2011/03/15
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Bernardo Barros, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, info, 2011/03/14
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- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Bernardo Barros, 2011/03/14
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- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, info, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Michael Ellis, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Nalesnik, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Kastrup, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Marc Weber, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2011/03/14
- Re: what about simplifying music notation?, David Kastrup, 2011/03/15