Hi Noeck,
What was the range of ages in the auditorium and their (musical) background?
Students were from 7 to 18 years old. Average age was around 9. All these students globally started learning music at age 6 or 7. In most french conservatories, students have both an instrument course and a music education ("Formation Musicale") course. So these students you saw (hopefully) have a common background based on "sensoriality", full participation of the whole body, singing, memorizing, etc. Huge (possibly off) topic though, and very related to teachers themselves.
I was wondering: Why don't you introduce \language "français" from the beginning?
Very interesting. When we first tried to imagine how we could introduce LilyPond and its representation of music to young people, we thought we'll need to stick to what is the most natural expression of music for them, which turned out not to be about note names but sound itself. And we observed that being in presence of another form of representation of a musical component (pitch, here, with alphabet letters) is really positive and stimulating their musical senses. After that, we decided to stick to the default note names and that this also was a little step toward international music things ;)
Best wishes this project!
Thank you Noeck! Yours, Mathieu _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
