Re: Creating LilyPond Object Models

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.04.2015 um 02:05 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hi Harm,
>
> > Speaking as a user, I always thought about a "Voice" like a
> > _musician_, never had problems with that thinking.
> But (he says, taking on the role of the average newbie user) a pianist is a 
> musician.
> So why can’t I write all of the piano music I need that musician to play in a 
> single Voice?
> ;)
>
> Ultimately, if you understand a MIDI “voice”, then you understand a Lilypond 
> “Voice”.
> If you don’t, I’m not sure there’s a real-world analogy that can be drawn 
> clearly.

Hm, I'm not so sure about that.
As a pianist I do have a notion of "voice" that's quite close to LilyPond's.
On the piano I can play/think in voices or not. If I don't play voiced 
(i.e. polyphonic) music a usually can translate that to chords in LilyPond.
And with all these inconsistencies in piano writing that are so hard to 
translate to LilyPond I have already grasped before that this is because 
of the piano's "abuse" of voices.
I still often curse LilyPond that it can't mimick this abuse (for 
example by allowing slurs to go from one voice to another), but it's not 
an issue with the *concept* of "Voice".

Urs

> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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