Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Joseph,

This notation is explain in detail in a paper that is part of the font
distribution itself at

  http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/HE-font-2009.zip

Several composers whose work is listed at http://plainsound.org
actively use this notation, including for large-scale orchestral music
(!), e.g.,

  http://www.plainsound.org/pdfs/sinfonie.pdf
  http://www.plainsound.org/music/sinfonie.m3u

It might be fun to listen to a retuning of Johann Sebastian Bach's
RICERCAR (Musikalisches Opfer 1) while reading the notation (it is
great and crazy :)

  http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/JSBRicercar.pdf
  http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/audio/JSBRicercar.html

Anyway, if you have further questions don't hesitate to ask.

Best
Torsten

PS: The code I just send it is already pretty much cleaned up if you
want to use it for a doc snippet.


On 09.09.2009, at 23:32, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> Torsten Anders wrote:
> > Thank you very very much for your help! The output is now almost
> > perfect as you can see see in the two examples below. The much
> > improved spacing of the first example is solely due to the code you
> > suggested.
>
> Dear Torsten,
>
> I'm really pleased to see your work on this as right now I'm working
> on
> extending the Lilypond docs' content on notating contemporary music --
> one of the topics I'm about to start writing up is microtonal
> notation.
>
> I'm not at all familiar with this notation or its logic or history, so
> it would be great if you would consider either writing some
> documentation yourself or exchanging a few emails to help me write up
> appropriate info on this.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>   -- Joe