Re: Byzantine chant and microtones

[Erich Enke]

> If you like, you might start using staff notation alone: there are similar
> scales in oriental (Persian/Arab/Turkish) music. One then introduces some
> microtonal accidentals.
>
> I have looked through some Byzantine scales, and can see more or less how to
> do it. You might use E72 or E53, the latter if you learn Graham Breed's
> implementation.

Thank you for the pointers.  Since translation to Western notation
remains a goal of mine, it would make sense to develop the staff
notation.  The responses were encouraging enough that I'll begin
looking into implementing this in lilypond.

Thanks,
Erich