David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes: > > Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org> writes: > > >> Actually, it's been in the back of my head for a while that those > >> pieces could be a great demo for Lilypond, particularly in respect > >> of being able to generate both written and sounding-pitched parts > >> for violin from the same material without any stupid "tricks". > > > > Indeed, typesetting the first few bars of one of the Biber sonatas, > > together with correct MIDI output, would yield a very nice example. > > Three staffs: true pitch, scordatura, tablature. > > Entry would be presumably in true pitch plus string number (where not in > "lowest terms"). >
... and then a music function inspired by those that figure string-number for tablature to generate the false-pitches for scordatura. On the other hand, the existing sources are manuscripts written in false-pitch, so writing a function to convert from false-pitch to true-pitch would make initial entry easier. There are some tricks required either way. Since staff-positions correspond to scale steps one-to-one, a natural LilyPond kind of pseudo-scordatura would have the staff lines and ledger lines at un-equally-spaced positions -- distorting the staff lines to represent the tuning but leaving the note-head positions alone. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel