On 7 Oct 2007, at 01:13, Graham Percival wrote:
I've identified the following areas to work on; please add items or
discuss them.
As for the section 6.6, the "Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music"
calls it "expression marks", which includes tempo and dynamic marks,
legato, staccato, bowing, articulation phrasing, use of piano pedals,
etc.
But ornaments seem not be included in this classification. The
article "ornaments" [loc.cit.] mentions them as various
embellishments by additions or variations of rhythms, melody or harmony.
Not a big point, perhaps, but it may make a difference when
searching, and the musical treatment is somewhat different, also
notationally. Pitched ornaments may require various embellishments
(accidentals and grace notes), and the sections on these might be
expanded.
For example, I am wrestling with the addition of accidentals to
pitched ornaments (\trill, etc.), and following the manual, I have
added the macros:
above = { \once \override Script #'script-priority = #-100 }
below = { \once \override TextScript #'script-priority = #-100 }
Even with these, the addition of accidentals is somewhat cumbersome.
An idea that comes to my mind would if say the "{...}" could works as
environments also in the markups. The idea is that writing
fis{\trill^\flat}
\flat work work in the environment created by \trill, that is markup,
and then "^" would be given local meaning as a super-positioning to
the \trill symbol rather than to the note fis. Then the different
accidentals could be added easily in a very compact notation. For
example
fis{\turn^sharp_\flat}
would be a turn with a sharp above and a flat below.
The section might be renamed to say: "Expression marks and
ornamentation".
Hans Åberg
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