Re: highlight music / fingering

[David Kastrup]

Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:

>>
>> >   c4 \chordmode {f, f,}
>> >   e \chordmode {e, e,}
>> >   \partial 2 b \chordmode {e,}
>>
>> [graphics]
>>
>> If that input corresponds to the printed output you gave, I want to see
>> the code producing the output.
>>
>>
> No, it doesn't correspond.

Ah, a pity.

> The source "AccordionStandardBass.ly" is "semiautomatically" generated
> :)) It is semi-automatically generated in the sense that I've written
> just one note and copy and paste the rest (just changed the note name
> etc.)

Well, standard bass is severely underrepresented in what I am
occasionally working with: I don't need it for accordion orchestra, and
I am not a particularly skilled arranger so I tend to just use the free
bass when playing stuff written for other instruments.

But that's sort of underwhelming.  There are a number of different
notations for standard bass (German, Russian, Italian) and it would nice
to have basically the same input.  That's a bit more tricky for German
since it often diverges into having notes that would work also for free
bass or piano and no longer are in a 1:1 relation with buttons in the
standard bass: particularly bass melodies tend to be spelled out without
a rigidly located octave break in the notation, so one bass button may
be written in several different octaves, and chords may use different
inversions or a number of notes differing from 3 while keeping the same
harmonic function.  So in the extreme case, you'll want to use one
source for the chord _namings_ that still are written as scripts to a
bass staff generated with _another_ source.

> I wrote AccordionStandardBass few months ago. Now that I understand a
> bit more lilypond I would like to rewrite it. The idea is to have a
> tool to write for accordion in "standard notation" and also generating
> corresponding midi output. If you David, or anybody else with more
> experience than me can help to do a better work it would be great.

It would be reasonable if one form of input could be just notes since
that is what a Midi accordion will deliver as its raw form.

-- 
David Kastrup