On 27/07/2024 11:56, Kevin Cole wrote:
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 6:25 AM Kieren MacMillan
<kie...@kierenmacmillan.info <mailto:kie...@kierenmacmillan.info>> wrote:
Hi Kevin,
> As I experiment, I've thought about playing my wee and few
compositions backwards. I'm wondering if someone's already come up
with a relatively simple way to reverse the order of the notes in a
score.
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches#retrograde
?
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches#retrograde?>?
Hope that helps!
It does indeed! My musical vocabulary is lacking. I had no idea what to
call "reversing the score". Thanks, Kieren!
(And I see "inversion" on the same page, which I may fool around with as
well, once I get the full grasp of how it "flips things upside-down".)
"Retrograde" to me is an astronomical term, and no I wouldn't have
thought of applying it to music, either. But playing music backwards
was, if I recall correctly, one of Beethoven's party tricks - along with
upside down and possibly several others ...
(Retrograde motion is when a satellite is orbiting with a reverse
rotation to what it's orbiting. If you check out our solar system, for
the most part everything is spinning/rotating the same way. The moon is
"tidally locked", so that one rotation = one orbit, so the moon is on
the boundary of ?prograde and retrograde motion.
Cheers,
Wol
Cheers,
Wol
