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Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?
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Eben Sorkin |
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Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook? |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:18:58 -0500 |
On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 09.01.2013 22:00, schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
>>
>> I'm a pianist, and I know Chopin very well and like him a lot, but I
>> have *never* heard or played a song written by him.
> I have two complete recordings of Chopin's songs, one of them published by
> the Deutsche Grammophon. So they are existent.
>> Regarding operas
>> of Moniuszko, let's have a look at the statistics from
>> http://www.operabase.com, for example the rank of the most performed
>> composers and the associated language of the last five years:
>>
>> #1 Verdi Italian (3020 szenical runs)
>> #2 Mozart German/Italian (2410)
>> #8 Bizet French (654)
>> #9 Handel English/Italian (598)
>> #10 Tchaikovsky Russian (432)
>> #15 Lehár Hungarian/German (281)
>> #18 Janáček Czech (209)
>> #59 Moniuszko Polish (32)
>> #87 Chapí Spanish (?) (21)
>> #96 Saariaho Finnish (?) (18)
>>
>>> It seems as if you thought that polish people don't write their own
>>> music...
>> Sorry to say, but this is utter nonsense. It's a matter of fact that
>> from an international point of view Poland is not relevant to opera,
>> as Austria is not relevant to musical, for example. It doesn't
>> diminish the value of Polish music!
> Maybe true. But it doesn't change the fact that it should be possible to
> typeset scores in practically any language, if LilyPond wants to be 'for
> everyone’.
Covering European languages including all the eastern ones is a straightforward
task. Cyrillic is non-trivial unless you have be trained. I am glad I have the
training! :-)
To say all it sounds like you mean native american, African, Indic and Asian
languages. I suspect you don’t really mean this however. At lest not
immediately. Am I mistaken?
-e.
>
> Urs
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, (continued)
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Eben Sorkin, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Janek Warchoł, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?,
Eben Sorkin <=
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/10
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Janek Warchoł, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Dave Crossland, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Eben Sorkin, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Aleksandr Andreev, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/10