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Re: Twelve-tone notation


From: Nikolausius
Subject: Re: Twelve-tone notation
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:50:11 -0700 (PDT)

Thank you guys,
you are great!!!

The solution Neil posted seems to be the solution to the problem. Thank you
all for your help and efforts!


Neil Puttock wrote:
> 
> On 27 September 2010 01:34, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that's what Neil was describing, but I'd like to add
>> one wrinkle.  Maybe I'm wrong, but it's my understanding
>> that the wide staff-spaces are not supposed to be twice as
>> big, but 1.5 times.  So I don't think it's quite the same
>> dimensions as it would be by Neil's description.  I think
>> the first C is in the position of a traditional F, but the
>> ledger lines that would normally cut through what used to be
>> A and C now cut through what used to be G and B.
> 
> Ah, I hadn't noticed that, though funnily enough, it actually makes
> the positioning inside the staff much simpler.
> 
>> Incidentally, an almost identical system is credited to
>> Walter Steffens on p.32 of Gardner Read's "Music Notation".
> 
> I thought I'd seen it before. :)  The Steffens example has fewer
> lines, but the spacing is the same for the wider staff-spaces.
> 
>> Would be fun to see this in action.
> 
> Any mapping is possible: it's up to the user to write the function
> which maps pitches to position, though in this case ly:pitch-semitones
> will suffice due to rounding.
> 
> \relative c' {
>   \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(-4 -2 0 3 5 8 10 12)
>   \set Staff.middleCPosition = #-10
>   \set Staff.staffLineLayoutFunction = #ly:pitch-semitones
>   % these are wrong due to incorrect legers
>   c1 cis d dis e
>   % all OK inside stave
>   f fis g
>   gis1 a ais b
>   c1 des d es
>   e1 f ges g
>   as1 a bes ces
> }
> 
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \remove "Accidental_engraver"
>     \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
>   }
> }
> 
> Cheers,
> Neil
> 
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