Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, >> - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each >> syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. > That is not totally a thing of old practise/new practice. > Conventional vocal practise is to have beams align with melismas. As an engraver, and as b

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-28 Thread Michael Gerdau
> > - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each > > syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. I'll leave it up to > > you to decide which style you want to follow. It sounds like you're using > > an older edition for a source. > > That is not totally a thing

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-28 Thread Valentin Petzel
> - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each > syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. I'll leave it up to > you to decide which style you want to follow. It sounds like you're using > an older edition for a source. That is not totally a thing of old pract

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread J Martin Rushton
Sorry, this was posted to the wrong thread yesterday: Kevin, Just a tiny typo: in the last verse of "Go where the glory waits thee" you have "Draw_w_ one tear from thee;" Regards, Martin

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Jay Anderson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 12:32 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > ... > I'm really only concerned here with how to better grok LilyPond. > > - For full measure rests I saw you use 'r2.' In the song of the

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Oct 2021 at 14:59:43 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > > Before I make TOO many mistakes, and make a royal mess of things, I > thought I'd offer up the three wee songs I've entered thus far

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:14 PM Ralph Palmer wrote: > > It looks to me like an excellent job so far! On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:15 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > With LP, the output is the goal. There are multiple approaches to such goals > depending on experience, etc. My LP now looks much differe

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 12:33 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > > Before I make TOO many mistakes, and make a royal mess of things, I > thought I'd offer up the three wee songs I've entered thus far. The

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
With LP, the output is the goal. There are multiple approaches to such goals depending on experience, etc. My LP now looks much different from the LP I first wrote 10+ years ago. Yet that 10 year old code still works. And were LP experts to attempt the same no doubt their code would be different.

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 3:52 PM Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Kevin, I get 404 Not Found errors fir the .ly source links. But the > engravings and audio pages all work well. Very nicely done!! Oops. The source repo was set to "private". I've changed that. the links to the sources *should* now work. I

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Kevin, I get 404 Not Found errors fir the .ly source links. But the engravings and audio pages all work well. Very nicely done!! Regards. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 2:31 PM Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > > B

Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread Kevin Cole
I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty much a beginner with LilyPond. Before I make TOO many mistakes, and make a royal mess of things, I thought I'd offer up the three wee songs I've entered thus far. The sources: https://codeberg.org/ubuntourist/celtic_song_book/sr