Re: Saying hello and looking for real incipit to image conversion

[Mats Bengtsson]

At 
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-notation-templates.html
you can see an example of an "incipit", as the term is used in the LilyPond
manual. Scroll down until you see the first printed score example.
The incipit, is the music before the first double bar, and shows the first
bar(s) of the music, as it looked in the original manuscript, which can be
interesting information in examples like these, where the music in the main
score has been transcribed to use modern clefs and other durations to make
it more easily readible for todays musicians.

Since I'm not a native English speaker, I should not really comment on 
the general
meaning of the term, but as far as I understand, it's an excerpt of the 
beginning of
a piece of music (or text), which agrees with your examples of "incipits".

If I understand your question correctly, what you really ask is if it's 
possible to
convert the textual format that you show in your example to the textual 
format
used as input to LilyPond, in order to be able to print out the musical 
excerpt
in ordinary notation. There's currently no such support, but that should be
very easy to do for anybody with some basic programming skills.

   /Mats

Chad Thatcher wrote:
> Hello, I am brand new to Lilypond and this list so hello to everyone.  I think
> this program is brilliant and am currently using it on an intel mac running
> 10.4.9 and it works great.
>
> I have been hunting around for a program that will produce a musical bar as an
> image (png, pdf or whatever) from a "real" incipit.  I say "real" because I am
> not so sure about my understanding of this term now that I have read through
> some of the Lilypond docs.  Before this I took the meaning to be the typewriter
> based ascii representation of a piece of music like this:
>
> ''4G{3G FbEDC'BA5
> BG}{8GxF+}{3FEDEFGA''5C'B}/''8{C+3C5DC'3B''C}{6.Ct'5B''C6D'A}''
> 8G'3-{G5AB''CD}{8bE'B}/{6BA''bED}8-{BxF}{6D3DbEDC'B''5C'A}
> {3BxFGDbE''5DC'B''CC'B''C}/
>
> The above incipit is a Sonata (#1 as it goes) by Johann Sebastian Bach as
> supplied by a cataloging project at the British Library.  Could Lilypond 
> convert this into a musical bar or is this nothing like what Lily considers
> an incipit?
>
> I have seen talk of incipits everywhere in the docs but wherever they are
> mentioned the data is not recognizable to me and my limited knowledge of how 
> the above inicipit system works.
>
> Can anyone clear up my misunderstanding of incipit as a term and what it
> actually means of what the seemingly different meanings might be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chad.
>
>
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