Kenny Stephens <kfstephensii <at> yahoo.com> writes:
Our church has a handbell group whose members are not all musically
literate. To
keep themselves from having to learn to read music, they mark their
notes using
differently colored highlighters.
Is there a means by which I can color the notes based on its
absolute pitch ---
not its pitch class? Some of the music spans three octaves. The
requirements are:
1) b4 and b5 are different colors.
2) b\flat4 and b4 are different colors.
3) different pitches can be assigned to the same color (some
"ringers" play
two or more handbells).
I've only been playing around with Lilypond for about a week
(though I've logged
numerous hours) for typesetting organ music; but this is different.
I did find
an example using Scheme and 'staff-position,' but this fails
condition 1.
Ideas, suggestions or solutions would be appreciated.
Using the same idea as the example you mentioned
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Advanced-tweaks-with-Scheme
)
you can base the color on the pitch:
#(define (color-notehead grob)
(pitch-to-color (ly:event-property (ly:grob-property grob 'cause)
'pitch)))
Now you'd just have to figure out how to implement the pitch-to-color
function. For example this colors all the flat notes blue:
#(define (pitch-to-color pitch)
(if (eqv? (ly:pitch-alteration pitch) -1/2) (x11-color 'blue)))
You might want to get a little fancy to make sure enharmonic spellings
of the same pitch are the same color, but for most cases that
shouldn't be a problem.
-----Jay
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