Re: Persian music package

[Kees van den Doel]

Well I know Persian music very well, and the tuning as-is is perfect, so I'm not sure what we are talking about here.

Persian music doesn't "raise by commas". There are no "different tunings", there is the current MIDI tuning which is correct and anything different is wrong.

It's working fine now, nothing is broken that needs to be fixed??

As far as I'm concerned the problem of upgrading persian.ly to 2.22 is solved.

Cheers,

Kees

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 9:05 AM Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> wrote:

> On 6 Aug 2021, at 16:45, Kees van den Doel <kvdoel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please include the list in reply.

As you posted an email intended to be private, a correction: I did not misremember, you really do use E60. :-)

> I have no Idea what E72 and E60 etc. is, to me it sounds like European freeway names.

It is Scala notation for the ETs: E72 = 72 ET, etc.

> If you guys want to merge it into main LP distribution that's great, and I'll be happy to help on Persian music issues but I'm fairly useless on technical details.
>
> The docs inside persian.ly are intended to give you all the info on Persian music needed for correct typesetting, but if something is lacking let me know and I'll add it when I update the package.
>
> However you can always check how things should look/sound by downloading the original package as it is working perfectly with old LP (and probably with new, but I haven't regressed all my scores)  and has been extensively used for over a decade.
> MIDI tuning  is very important esp. if you are learning Persian tuning.

If this is the case, you should use preferably E53, but as it requires Graham Breed's file regular.y which currently is not in the LilyPond distribution, the next best thing would be E72, and as Persian music raises by to commas (E72 tonesteps), it is in actuality in E36. So I would recommend using those. It would be nice to hear what somebody that knows this music well thinks about how these different tuning sound with Persian music.