Fwd: implementing roman numeral harmonic analysis?

[David Nalesnik]

**Arghh**  This should have gone to -devel in the first place!

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From: David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:09 AM
Subject: Fwd: implementing roman numeral harmonic analysis?
To: address@hidden, lilypond-user <address@hidden>

[Janek--sorry about the duplicate message!]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi!

2013/9/5 Mark Polesky <address@hidden>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> On a whim I decided to try to implement a roman numeral
> harmonic analysis interface, entirely in scheme.

I haven't experimented with this yet, but I wanted to share with you a set of functions which I've been using for creating analyses for theory classes I teach.  You can find a more recent version (not that recent!) here:

 http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg69861/rN.ly

The extension lines you talk about have been at the back of my mind, and I've wondered if there's a way to integrate Lilypond's vast capabilities for figured bass into this system.

A big stumbling block of my approach here has been to allow for a style of input where the user need to include placeholders in the input: so if you wanted to input V/V, you wouldn't need to include a dummy quality marker and a dummy inversion.  Also, there's the question of using note names with accidentals (which these functions do).

You ask about analysis of modulations: somewhere I have a \pivot function which does the Kostka/Payne style arrangement.  I'll try to dig that up.

--David