Re: Absolute Beginners

[Geoff Horton]

> Geoff, I took away plainchant. Should I mention other things, like
> proportional notation or whatever?

I don't know--I've never used proportional notation (at least not knowingly).

> comes the c that is a fourth above the g instead of a fifth below, an
> so forth.

"and so forth" (yet another one that spellcheck won't find)

> You set the clef naming the one you want: in the preceeding example,
> we wrote "alto" instead of "treble". Other clefs are called:

"by naming" instead of just "naming"


> You can amuse yourself writing away melodies, trying things and see
> how they look. Don't worry, if what you write is impossible and does
> not compile, you will get an instructive error message in the little
> "process log window" we mentioned at the beginning and no printout,
> but you won't crash the program.

Actually, it is sometimes possible to crash the program, but that
indicates a bug in LilyPond; I believe the developers are committed to
making hard crashes extinct.