Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Finally, I did some work to get it done properly in 3 lines, here is what it looks like on my box [with lily doc parameters] What do you think ? Cheers, David ;; - Le Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:18:51 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : David

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:33:37 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham, you wrote Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 AM Not the MIDI version of string sounds, you don't. :) Strings are so expressive they can never be properly synthesized. I grant you that. To be fair, I'd

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Strings are so expressive they can never be properly synthesized. I grant you that. To be fair, I'd assume that this applies even more to vocal music -- quite apart from the expressivity of voice, midi doesn't even attempt to add lyrics. Yes and

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Monday, October 13, 2008 7:35 PM On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:33:37 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham, you wrote Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 AM Not the MIDI version of string sounds, you don't. :) Strings are so expressive they can never be properly

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
Le Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:18:51 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : David Your extract is now visible on the kainhofer site. Unfortunately it takes up too much space, with the result that the small amount of following text is pushed off the bottom of the first screen. I

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
Also, the line starting with 'measure' 5, suppress the third argument of the first 3 calls to \colmark [ the arg], this will also save another vertical line ... Cheers, David Le Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:18:51 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : David Your extract is now

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread David Séverin
forgot to mention as weel, the file I sent you was utf8 encoded, as you commented the line, could you also replace the following accented characters: David Séverin épouse Lívia ;; -- Also, the line starting with 'measure' 5, suppress the third argument of the first 3 calls to

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I agree with you, Trevor. The MIDI block should go in for the sake of the readers, not for the sake of those building docs. I'm a fairly experienced user now, but when I was starting out it gave me fits trying to get the MIDI block in the right place and I would definitely have appreciated

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:36:38 -0300 David S__verin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - try reduce the staff line to 16 [or lower?] It's supposed to be 15, anyway. Trevor: pitches-headword.ly Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is possible. I added midi output (hope that's OK with you - what tempo do

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is possible. I added

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:43 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham, you wrote Friday, October 10, 2008 7:38 PM On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, why midi? It doesn't help anything for the docs, and as you've just said,

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
PROTECTED]; Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Le Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:40:24 -0500, Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Certainly this is fine with me. David's piece looks really

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-09 Thread David Séverin
Le Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi David Many thanks for this. The abbreviations are fine as they are - these headwords are not intended to teach anything, they're just to show what is possible. I added midi output (hope that's OK with you -

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-08 Thread David Séverin
Le Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:32:09 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Jonathan There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The two bars you have done already would be quite sufficient and would have been ideal, but as you say, David's offering does display rather

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/7 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published in the U.S. before the 1920s. All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by the French publishers :-( But six bars of Ravel won't hurt. Cheers, Valentin

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Kulp wrote Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:04 AM Ok I've put together six bars of the Ravel quartet. File is attached so you can see it looks like it'll be appropriate. It would be nice to have a couple of fingerings and bowing indications, but this passage didn't have any. There

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
]; Lilypond-User List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, the pdf I downloaded from the International

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by the French publishers :-( Those damn French… they always take their own sweet time! ;-) But six bars of Ravel won't hurt. Agreed. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

RE: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Kulp Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:04 To: Trevor Daniels Cc: Lilypond-User List Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Could you email me the code with the time sig removed? I've never

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
So, do I need to do a different headword, or can this small excerpt be considered fair use? (Or does the concept of fair use apply in French copyright law?) Jon Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: It's true that in most of the European countries (and many other countries around the world) Ravel's

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Graham Percival
Find a different headword. You don't want to screw around with fair use. Is fair use under US law? Is it fair dealing under Canadian law? IIRC the last time we looked at this, my not-a-lawyer reading of the Canadian copyright law was that, since we weren't quoting a small exerpt *for the

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
New headword will be coming soon. Probably a late Beethoven quartet. We don't need copyright headaches. Jon Graham Percival wrote: Find a different headword. You don't want to screw around with fair use. Is fair use under US law? Is it fair dealing under Canadian law? IIRC the last time

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/7 Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. In Europe (European Economic Area) the term of copyright ends when the author has been dead for more than 70 years. Ravel died in December 28,

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
To: Trevor Daniels Cc: Lilypond-User List Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Could you email me the code with the time sig removed? I've never figured out how to do this except by making it transparent, which looks ugly b/c there's a blank space. I want to see how you did

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, the pdf I downloaded from the International Music Library Score Project was made from a Dover score, and I think those are always made from public domain stuff.

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Thanks, Trevor. I hadn't even listened to the MIDI before. I'm sure the strings sound much better. I'll have to check the tempo of this passage and set it appropriately, though, b/c I don't think it's correct right now. And I see now how easy it is to remove the time signature. :)

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, waste time on this garbage I find is baffling — and, frankly, more than a little sad — that you think discussing copyright issues is a waste of time for professors, composers, programmers, musicians... But that's your issue, I guess. Not-so-cheers also, Kieren.

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Rutger Hofman
Ravel died in 1937. In almost all countries, copyright lasts 70 years past the death of the author (I think Canada still has the 50-year rule, as one of the very few exceptions; and exceptions never extend the period of protection). Since Jan 1, 2008, Ravel's works are free of copyright.

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:43:28 -0400 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham, waste time on this garbage I find is baffling ___ and, frankly, more than a little sad ___ that you think discussing copyright issues is a waste of time for professors, composers, programmers,

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/7 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published in the U.S. before the 1920s. All of these are unfortunately still held hostages by the French

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:43:28 -0400 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham, waste time on this garbage I find is baffling ___ and, frankly, more than a little sad ___ that you think discussing copyright

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
: Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Graham's right. Too much time on copyright. I've selected a very nice passage from Beethoven's Op. 127 and will begin

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings Graham's right. Too much time on copyright. I've selected a very nice passage from Beethoven's Op. 127 and will begin setting it later today. With any luck I'll send it out

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
That's a nice-looking piece and would certainly show off more of Lilypond's capabilities than the Beethoven passage I'm working on. If y'all would rather use David's piece that'd be fine with me. I've finished 2 bars of the Beethoven (there would only be 2 more) so I could bail out now or

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Subject: Re: Headword for unfretted-strings That's a nice-looking piece and would certainly show off more of Lilypond's capabilities than the Beethoven passage I'm working on. If y'all would rather use David's piece that'd be fine with me. I've finished 2 bars of the Beethoven (there would only be 2

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Certainly this is fine with me. David's piece looks really cool and could serve as an example for much more than just bowed-string techniques. It'll be better to use his example. Best, Jonathan Trevor Daniels wrote: Jonathan There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-07 Thread David Séverin
Le Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:32:09 +0100, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Jonathan There is no need to do any more of the Beethoven quartet. The two bars you have done already would be quite sufficient and would have been ideal, but as you say, David's offering does display rather

Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
I'm ready for an inspiring example of string music as the headword for NR 2.3 Unfretted string instruments. A fragment of a string quartet maybe? Any suggestions or volunteers to produce one? Trevor ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I wouldn't mind doing that. I have some Beethoven quartet scores from which I could choose something, perhaps? It would be cool to do something more modern if it's in public domain. Jon Trevor Daniels wrote: I'm ready for an inspiring example of string music as the headword for NR 2.3

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, It would be cool to do something more modern if it's in public domain. Ravel and Debussy are both PD, as are the early Webern that were published in the U.S. before the 1920s. Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok I've put together six bars of the Ravel quartet. File is attached so you can see it looks like it'll be appropriate. It would be nice to have a couple of fingerings and bowing indications, but this passage didn't have any. There are some pizz. and arco and up-bow on the next system but