Re: Contemporary music documentation

[Trevor Daniels]

Joseph Wakeling wrote Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:13 PM

> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > BTW, slightly tangential, but have you seen section 4.5.5 on 
> > Proportional
> > notation, written by Trevor Bača?  There would be no need to 
> > repeat this.
>
> Sure -- I've even tried using that functionality in one or two 
> pieces.
> :-)  Incidentally, what's described there is only a subset of
> proportional notation forms -- is there any potential/possibility 
> with
> Lilypond for the 'true' proportional notation where stems are not 
> given
> and note lengths are indicated by lines proceeding from the 
> notehead?

Not as far as I know.

> To the general point, there are lots of contemporary notation 
> issues
> already addressed in the docs, but they're spread out and not
> necessarily all easy to find -- one of the motivations for the 
> proposed
> section is to have one single 'contemporary music' space to guide 
> people
> to the right sections of the existing manuals.

Great, that's exactly the purpose of the "References" subsection in
each of the sections of Chapter 2 in the NR.

> I'll start working on this, bit by bit -- if it's OK to submit 
> stubs I
> will probably sketch out a form for the section and fill in later.

Stubs are fine, but make them visible rather than commented out,
perhaps followed by "TBC" (to be completed).  You could do this
in the Turkish section too - I'm sure that's what Graham meant.

Trevor