yay! for lilypond 2.15

[Stefaan Himpe]

Hi there,

I would like to thank the lilypond developers for making this great 
software and the recent addition of modal transposition functions to 
lilypond. It works brilliantly (even if the documentation could be 
improved - from the description it is not entirely clear exactly how the 
scale is used, and until I understood I got the weirdest results...).

Lilypond 2.15 played a crucial role in calculating a 5-part canon and 
6-part invention. I'm not aware of any other typesetting software with 
which this would have been possible or just as efficient!

You can listen to the results online (reference [3] and [4]).

I've written two tutorials on how I calculated the music (including the 
lilypond code, which I'm sure can be improved!) which can be read in [1] 
and [2]. For this I used lyx with lilypond-book integration. I did have 
to switch off safe mode though, because I couldn't refer to colors in 
safe mode?! That was unexpected...

In general it would be nice if I could gain better understanding of how 
to manipulate music fragments in lilypond, which could dramatically 
shorten the scores even further. Maybe an idea for a next newsletter: 
tutorial on how to permutate a list of music fragments.

Finally I would like to express minor disappointment in leaving out 
Frescobaldi in the overview of lilypond editors in newsletter #27. It is 
my current favourite lilypond editor ;)

Many thanks and keep up the good work!

[1] 
http://a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/tutorial-on-my-technique-for-writing.html
[2] 
http://a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/explanation-about-technique-used-in.html
[3] http://soundcloud.com/stefaanhimpe/5-part-canon
[4] http://soundcloud.com/stefaanhimpe/6-part-invention