Re: turkish music

[Hans Aberg]

[This should probably have gone to LilyPond Users list.]

Just search for "makam" or "micro" in the LilyPond Notation or  
Snippets documentation, like on
  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/snippets/Pitches#Pitches
There is also a file in the distribution called "makam-init.ly",  
which may contain the same stuff.

The method that LilyPond uses divided the 12-ET major second into 9  
parts, which leads to a 54-ET, or perhaps the double, 108-ET, whereas  
the notation really refers to 53-ET. So it will not sound exactly as  
the notation says - the minor seconds will be 10 cents wider. But I  
think the notation will look the part.

If you want to experiment with scales, such as 53-ET, you might use  
Scala <http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/>. It can retune MIDI  
files, and also create retuning files for Timidity (which can be  
played using the timidity -Z option).

  Hans Åberg


On 11 Feb 2008, at 15:01, Mutlu wrote:

> Hi, I have just downloaded lilypond because a friend of mine has  
> recommended
> it to me to write turkish notation.
> I silmply installed it through the link below:
> http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/mingw/ 
> lilypond-2.10.33-
> 1.mingw.exe
> I do not know whether i should install anything else..
> I will try to run the program I hope it works.If not i will get  
> back to you
> for your support.
> For your information..
> All the best
> Mutlu