Re: What can Premusic do that others can't?

[Juan Cristóbal Cerrillo]

Shouldn’t this discussion be happening elsewhere?
The relevance to Lilypond is what exactly?

best,

jc

> On Mar 20, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello Have,
> 
> I don’t understand what you mean by square characters: can you make that more 
> clear?
> 
> There are text editors you can use I guess for the parallel aspect of what 
> seems to be a measure-wise notation IIUC, i.e. those that offer block-mode 
> editing such as Win-EDT on Windows.
> 
> There’s a tree structure in nearly all music, written or played: parts are 
> performed in parallel, each of them made of voices. The latter usually get 
> grouped into staves for reading and organisation commodity, and repeats, da 
> capos and codas add more structure to that. An organ music score is an 
> example of such a tree.
> 
> All text notations used to represent trees have a difficult problem. MusicXML 
> is not meant to be used by composers or music aficionados, it is an exchange 
> format designed for use by computer applications. The order of the various 
> markups such as <part-list/> and <part-list/> is defined by a DTD.
> 
> In the example below, the <note/> contains the sharp <accidental/>, but the 
> <p /> dynamic occurs before it. It could have been placed inside the <note/> 
> too, though. Such design choices were not made at random, there are reasons 
> behind them.
> 
>       <direction placement="below">
>         <direction-type>
>           <dynamics>
>             <p />
>           </dynamics>
>         </direction-type>
>       </direction>
>       <note>
>         <pitch>
>           <step>C</step>
>           <alter>1</alter>
>           <octave>4</octave>
>         </pitch>
>         <duration>16</duration>
>         <voice>1</voice>
>         <type>half</type>
>         <accidental>sharp</accidental>
>       </note>
> 
> In this other example, there’s a partgroup containing two parts, one for each 
> flute, with respective parts « 1 » and « 2 » sharing a single staff as is 
> often the case in orchestral scores. 
> 
>     </part-group>
>     <score-part id="P2">
>       <part-name>Flutes</part-name>
>       <part-abbreviation>Fl.</part-abbreviation>
>       <score-instrument id="P2-I19">
>         <instrument-name>Fl.</instrument-name>
>       </score-instrument>
>       <midi-instrument id="P2-I19">
>         <midi-channel>2</midi-channel>
>         <midi-program>74</midi-program>
>       </midi-instrument>
>     </score-part>
>     <part-group number="2" type="stop"/>
>     <part-group number="2" type="start">
>       <group-name>1
> 2</group-name>
>       <group-barline>yes</group-barline>
>     </part-group>
> 
> And the horns sections is a sub-partgroup in this score, with 4 voices 
> grouped into two staves. MusicXML precisely is weird in this area BTW: it 
> does not represent a staff group (tree of groups) as a tree, by allows for « 
> intelaced groups », which is arguable:
> <PastedGraphic-2.png>
> 
> 
> How do you represent such complex structures with Premusic?
> 
> JM
> 
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