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seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score
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Justin Glenn Smith |
Subject: |
seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2012 10:45:22 -0700 |
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As a personal exercise I am attempting to reproduce a printed score from an
ex-teacher. I have encountered a few difficulties for which I would appreciate
suggestions.
Notes have an explicit accidental even for natural (similar to the dodecaphonic
accidentals style), but only for their first use in each measure (this is
actually a style I have seen in other places too, for example a Xenakis String
quartet I was studying). I looked at the scheme code for defining accidental
styles (I have programmed in scheme before), but I figured I would ask here for
tips or on the off chance someone has already defined this before attempting to
define a new accidental style. Of course I can continue using ! to force
naturals as appropriate, so this is a low priority issue (more an annoyance in
a large score than anything else).
I am having problems with a single measure in 8/6 time. Lilypond complains that it is a
strange time signature (which it indeed is), and I cannot get a bar check to work
properly (I am doing bar checks for every measure and bar number checks for each numbered
bar to help make sure I am following the written score). In other cases where the bar
check did not work (where a "whole note" rest meant a whole measure regardless
of measure length, or a measure had a missing beat) I would use s (invisible notes) in
order to duplicate the appearance of the original score (never sure whether the issue was
an error or an idiom /experiment of some sort that is unfamiliar to me). Is there a way
to do 8/6 without nesting it in \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff commands?
Relatedly, there is a rest notated as a half rest with the number 5 above it and the
number 6 below it, which seems from context does indeed seem to be a rest of 5 "6th
notes" - I am assuming I just need to directly tell lilypond to display the symbols
using markup commands and use either candenza or s invisible notes to make the measure
work? If I had written the score I would have just done a tempo change (which seems much
more sane), but I am attempting to recreate an existing document.
- seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score,
Justin Glenn Smith <=