Hello Simon, The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the <chromatic> markup is mandatory…
JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 10:23, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> But then, why is the <diatonic> markup present in MusicXML? > > A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum on Facebook, we had a > discussion about why Čaikovskij spells what sounds a B major chord in the > Horns in F as <fis bes cis>. In short: A# is very uncomfortable to play for > horns, horns don’t use any written key signature anyway, etc. My point here > is: MusicXML wants to avoid such enharmonic respellings by not specifying a > fifth as 7 semitones, but as 5 diatonic steps amounting to 7 semitones. Or so > I guess… > > Best, Simon _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
