Re: Tonic Sol-Fa

[Michael Ellis]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Tim Sheasby <address@hidden> wrote:
> I know that LilyPond does not currently support Tonic Sol-Fa notation. 
> However, in my work on African Hymn I found that many Africans are familiar 
> with this form of notation. Most of my source material was originally set 
> using this format. I devised a spreadsheet with formulas to convert bars of 
> tonic sol-fa into lilypond notation. Actually it just converts the d, m, r, f 
> etc to the appropriate a, b, c etc based on the key of the song. I added 
> shortcuts for adding rests and skips as well - simply using SS instead of s 
> and RR instead of r. Once I have entered the notes simply copy the converted 
> columns into LilyPond and voila!

Hi Tim,
Not quite sure if your work is similar to what I've been doing with
solfege-based part transcriptions but, on the chance it might be
useful,  I've adapted some music function templates that let you write
music in solfege, like so

    \lacc \lyricmode { Mun -- gu ni pen -- doh }
    do8\f do re mi do4. r8 |

    \lacc \lyricmode { Ba -- ba weh tu, }
    do8 do re4 do4. r8 |

    \lacc \lyricmode { Mun -- gu weh tuh, }
    do8 do ti4 la4. r8 |

    \lacc \lyricmode { Ah tu pen -- dah. }
    sol8 do re4 do4. r8 |

to produce the attached example with the solfege syllables in smaller
italic beneath lyrics.

Some earlier versions are available in LSR and on StackOverflow.com,
but I've been refining the templates since then.  I'll be happy to
share them it if seems useful.

Cheers,
Mike

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