Re: gregorian chant improvement

[Juergen Reuter]

By the way, you may also be interested in the following related work from
a workshop on Braille Notation of Psalmodia and Gregorian Chant, held in 
Marburg, Germany, on October 2-3, 2002:

http://www.sbs-online.ch/musik/conference/documents/gregor.pdf

In order to make Gregorian chant notation readable for blind people, the
authors define how to decompose complex neumes into primitives, which
in turn are mapped to braille.  In fact, their breaking-down approach is 
very similar to what lily does, such that it should not be too complicated 
to implement their specification as an extension to LilyPond (which would 
probably be a nice student project).

Greetings,
Juergen


On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Elie Roux wrote:

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> But in my work with the monk we discovered that the most simple was to
> decompose neumes in simpler elements. We are able to list all the simple
> elements, and so we can make all possible neumes. It would be much
> simpler I think, than listing all possible neumes. It would also permit
> to put quilismas everywhere, not only in pes (they can be at any place
> in most of neumes).  If you want more details about these simple
> elements tell me, I will translate a document I made about a XML schema
> for gregorian chant (in french on http://omega.enstb.org/eroux/doc_fr.pdf).
>
> ...