On Oct 12, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Piaras Hoban <phoba...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm a bit late to the party here but hope I can contribute something. > > About two years ago I made the switch to using Lilypond exclusively as I was > getting tired of exporting pdfs with basic music notation and overlaying > graphics in Illustrator or some such. This was a real pain when doing parts > or making even the smallest of changes. Since then I've used lilypond for a > lot of pieces, all of which have some idiosyncratic notational devices. > There's very little I haven't been able to implement successfully in lilypond > (really just 1 thing that still evades me... customised barlines aligning > with first beat of a measure...). > > I thought it might be interesting for those wondering what's possible in > lilypond to see some examples from the field. I've put together a page > collating those things I've done in the past year or so. Many of these > notational devices seem to be fairly standardized nowadays; or at least the > symbols appear consistently, even if the interpretation of their meaning can > vary a lot. > > It would be great to develop a contemporary notation library for lilypond > making these notations readily available to any user, I'm not sure what that > would involve but I know it could be a major selling point for lilypond in > the contemporary music world. > > For completeness sake here's index of what you see in the linked PDF > (naturally eveything you see here is generated using lilypond alone): > > 1) Split-stem chords/clusters > 2) Stemmed glissando > 3) Bezier glissando w/arrowhead > 4) Variable width bezier glissando > 5) Vibrato with variable/random period and slope > 6) Interruptive polyphony > 7) Lachenmann pressed bow > 8) Billone beat notation > 9) Pencil line emulation (after Charlie Sdraulig) > 10) Sciarrino style jet-whistle > 11) Woodwind fingering staff > 12) Carin Levine style flute multiphonics > 13) Klavierstuck X proof-of-concept > 14) Sciarrino tremolo (with bezier hairpins) > 15) Stockhausen cluster-glissando > 16) Notation from a work of my own for violin > > Hope this might be illuminating for others; lilypond is great for this kind > of stuff. > > best wishes, > > piaras hoban > > > notation_sampler.pdf > > > On 12 October 2014 06:22, SoundsFromSound <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Urs Liska wrote > > Am 09.10.2014 06:31, schrieb Marco Bagolin: > >> The notation contemporary music is so diverse, I know. > >> I wonder if actually Lilypond has commands for drawing graphic > >> symbols, as line circle, curve, square, circle, etc... > > > > A nice thing about LilyPond's approach is that once you have invented > > something you can make it available as a command so it can easily be > > reused. You can also make such commands process arguments so they can be > > versatile and context-dependent. > > As an example have a look at the attached image. This is what someone on > > the list (Piaras Hoban) came up with when I asked for a function to > > write a stemmed glissando notation. The underlying function is quite > > complicated but you can use it by simply writing > > > > \stemmedGlissando #'(15 . #f) c'4 > > > > to tell LilyPond that the next glissando will have 15 stems and no (the > > #f) trailing grace note to indicate the target note. > > > > Stemmed-glissando.png (34K) > > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/167377/0/Stemmed-glissando.png> > > Urs, > > Is there more information on that stemmed gliss function? I'd be interested > to read more on that for LilyPond. Thanks! > > Ben > > Incredible!! If you can, please post the sources on openlilylib.org. This is remarkable work that will be undoubtedly be of use to many people. All the best, ~Mike
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