accordion notation facility

[Gianmaria Lari]

David Kaustrup wrote:

 

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. 

Yes it would be absolutely nice :) 

Anyway, I thought there was a standard international notation for accordion! Or anyway something that today is considered the way to go when you write accordion score. Isn't it?

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. 

Can you send me one example of german accordion notation? 

 

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'm sorry I don't understand.

> 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.

and here too, I'm sorry but I don't understand what do you mean.

Ciao, g.