Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

[Kees van den Doel]

The Ab's sound horribly out of tune, as if they were meantone G#'s.

Kees
----- Original Message -----
From: Torsten Anders <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 4:27 pm
Subject: Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning
To: address@hidden

> Dear Joseph,
> 
> This notation is explain in detail in a paper that is part of 
> the font
> distribution itself at
> 
>    http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/HE-font-2009.zip
> 
> Several composers whose work is listed at http://plainsound.org
> actively use this notation, including for large-scale orchestral music
> (!), e.g.,
> 
>    http://www.plainsound.org/pdfs/sinfonie.pdf
>    http://www.plainsound.org/music/sinfonie.m3u
> 
> It might be fun to listen to a retuning of Johann Sebastian Bach's
> RICERCAR (Musikalisches Opfer 1) while reading the notation (it is
> great and crazy :)
> 
>    http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/JSBRicercar.pdf
>    
> http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/audio/JSBRicercar.html
> Anyway, if you have further questions don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> Best
> Torsten
> 
> PS: The code I just send it is already pretty much cleaned up if you
> want to use it for a doc snippet.
> 
> 
> On 09.09.2009, at 23:32, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> > Torsten Anders wrote:
> >> Thank you very very much for your help! The output is now almost
> >> perfect as you can see see in the two examples below. The much
> >> improved spacing of the first example is solely due to the 
> code you
> >> suggested.
> >
> > Dear Torsten,
> >
> > I'm really pleased to see your work on this as right now I'm working
> > on
> > extending the Lilypond docs' content on notating contemporary 
> music --
> > one of the topics I'm about to start writing up is microtonal
> > notation.
> >
> > I'm not at all familiar with this notation or its logic or 
> history, so
> > it would be great if you would consider either writing some
> > documentation yourself or exchanging a few emails to help me 
> write up
> > appropriate info on this.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> >   -- Joe
> 
> 
> 
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