Re: digital music editions - is Lilypond a suitable tool for it?

[Urs Liska]

Digital music edition is a rather broad field and there exists a very active scholarly community around it. You nay want to have a look at http://music-encoding.org. 

With regard to SVG rendering there is Verovio, a tool that can provide instant rendering of scores (encoded in XMK) including reflowing directly in a browser.
There are even examples where you can edit the score in the browser and the changes are written back into the XML.

You may also have a look at http://beethovens-werkstatt.de/demo which goes as far as to switch elements *within the scanned autograph*.

LilyPond’s largest drawback compared to that context is the static nature of the compilation.  However, there's a really strong point in using LilyPond in that context: the engraving quality, combined with its text based nature and the option of strict separation of content and presentation. There's currently no tool to produce professional engraving from digital encodings, and LilyPond will hopefully be the solution to that. Several projects are under way to that end.

Best
Urs

Am 31. Januar 2016 13:41:37 MEZ, schrieb musicus <address@hidden>:

Dear all,

for some time I'm thinking of "digital music editions". Though printed music sheets have many advantages there are some very interesting points, which cannot be delivered by a sheet of paper.

IMO the most important reasons for digital music editions are:

 

 

    - concentrating the displayed information to the minimum while having the possibility of showing/hiding extra informations (fingerings, bows, parts, editorial annotations, own notes...)

    - you can provide different variants either as linked/ deposited image or integrated in the typesetting (for example: first editions and autographs!)

There are several approaches on this topic (such as the upcoming "HENLE library"), but until now there is nothing really usable yet and I can imagine Lilypond to gain an additional unique usecase.

I'm not able to provide the necessary extensions (svg: id's, classes?, groups) by myself, but I can present a little example of a possible application in a browser. (attached)

What do you think about it? Is anybody interested in this direction?

And mainly: is such an "enhanced" typesetting possible with Lilypond?

Best regards,

musicus

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