Re: Contemporary notation (Re: GSoC projects list)

[Simon Albrecht]

On 06.02.2017 20:15, "Jürgen Reuter" wrote:
> Another thing, I guess, is making it easy for musicians without
> programming knowledge to smoothly embed their own articulation signs,
> note heads, clefs, and other font symbols into LilyPond at runtime:
> Just define a new articulation sign or note head shape or clef at the
> top of your .ly file with a single short line of scheme code that
> references some, say, .eps file.  I think this is still not that
> easily possible, right?  (Please correct me, if I am wrong.)

Sounds good.

> Personally, I am even not sure of how to properly notate contemporary
> music.  Yes, I have seen e.g. excerpts of Stockhausen's score of his
> Studie II, and Wehinger's aural score of Ligeti's Artikulation, as well
> as a score of Kagel.  (LilyPond's short, long and very long fermata
> signs were actually inspired by this score of Kagel.) Still, I am not
> satisfied with such notation: At least to my perception, it typically
> does not represent well essential nuances of e.g. electronic sounds.

I think we should make as few such decisions as possible and rather 
stick with such notation as is already widely recognised as 
quasi-standard, e.g. following Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the 
Twentieth Century (Norton, New York 1980).

Best, Simon