Re: Pitch/ octave notation

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg escreveu:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote:
> > 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:
> > > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:50, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
> > > If you really need this, I'd recommend you to use sed or similar tool as
> > > a preprocessing step for your score. It should be fairly easy to
> > > lexically replace c4 with c', c5 with c'', etc. It will probably be
> > > confusing though, because you'll have to write c48 to indicate an eight
> > > note of pitch c', etc,
> > Then he could use 4c8 instead, or does lilypond have any special
> > meaning for prepended digits?
>
> hm, then maybe 8c4 is an even better choice ("8th of pitch c4"). I guessed 
> that the request for c4 syntax for pitches is related to some musicological 
> convention where c4 is the actual pitch name.

I think it is something either from midi or MUSEDATA (aka. Cobol for 
musicologists).

prepended and appended digits are the same due to whitespace being 
insignificant.

 c8 c4 c8 = c8 c 4c8 = c 8c4 c8

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