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Lute tablature
From: |
Laura Conrad |
Subject: |
Lute tablature |
Date: |
16 May 2003 11:45:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
There's a certain amount of demand (ok, one person asked me) for me to
include the lute tablature in my Dowland edition. I haven't been
doing it, because none of the people I play with regularly plays lute,
and so I didn't want to put untested garbage up on the internet, but
this person claims she will test it and report errors.
There is an abc2ps variant that produces pretty good lute tab output.
For an example of what Dowland's lute tablature looked like, see my
one abctab2ps transcription:
http://www.laymusic.org/music/dowland/shepherd/cantus-lute.pdf
http://www.laymusic.org/music/dowland/shepherd/cantus-lute.abc
However, I'd prefer to be able to use lilypond. But I have several
problems:
The lilypond manual states:
Finally, it is possible to change the Scheme function
to format the tablature note text. The default is
fret-number-tablature-format, which uses the fret
number, but for some instruments that may not use this
notation, just create your own tablature-format
function. This function takes three argument: the
string number, the string tuning
and the note pitch.
One major difference between Dowland's tablature and the
guitar tab that lilypond defaults to is that the fret
indications are letters and not numbers. Has anyone created a
tablature-format function that would do this?
Another problem is that not all lutes have the same number of
strings (or more precisely, courses), and Dowland dealt with
this by generally using 6 string tablature, but occasionally
using a ledger line if he was specifying a fret on the seventh
(or even lower) course. Would lily allow this?
Another problem is that I wasn't planning on figuring out
the pitch Dowland was specifying in order to enter the tab.
Why shouldn't I just be able to enter the tab (and the tuning
table for the strings), and have the computer figure out the
pitch?
I also don't see any examples of tab with the note values
indicated by stems above the staff the way the Dowland tab has
it.
I suspect I'm reopening some questions that created heated discussion
(which I didn't really follow at the time) when lily's tab was first
implemented. If the resolution was that the current tab
implementation just isn't general-purpose enough for what
I'm trying to do, that's a perfectly reasonable answer to this
question.
--
Laura (mailto:address@hidden , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Lute tablature,
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