Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

[Trevor Bača]

On 3/31/06, Erlend Aasland <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Marcus
>
>
> On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:29:43 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >
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> > > I'm interested in this kind of 'al niente' / 'de niente' thing, too,
> > > but haven't had a chance to figure out the right settings yet.
> > >
>
>
> This sounds interesting, do you have an image of a real world example? (I
> was unable to find one by googling). I wasn't aware of "al niente" until
> now, but I could certainly make use of it in some of my arrangements.
>
> > At least one music font/notation program, I forget which, includes for
> this
> > purpose a letter "n" in the same style as mrsfp for dynamics. So perhaps
> the
> > ideal way to implement this latter kind of niente notation (the hairpin
> circle
> > tip being the other kind) would be to create a new dynamic mark, called
> "n", and
> > syntax analogous to the other dynamics, thus:
> >
> > c2~\> c~ c r\n
>
>
> I made a quick hack for this just for fun (I'm sure Han-Wen would implement
> it more properly, especially the font); see the attached patch and test
> case.

Oh wow. This is really cool.

Yeah, you've definitely got the idea; the best examples are in scores
of Sciarrino's recent music and I'll have time to dig through some
this weekend and make a few small scans.

IIRC I think the circles are a touch smaller, maybe about 80% of what
you've rendered here; again, I get the scans to help out. Could the
size of the circle be a configurable parameter?




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Trevor Bača
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