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Re: Twelve-tone notation
From: |
Neil Puttock |
Subject: |
Re: Twelve-tone notation |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:40:02 +0100 |
On 27 September 2010 01:34, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, that's what Neil was describing, but I'd like to add
> one wrinkle. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's my understanding
> that the wide staff-spaces are not supposed to be twice as
> big, but 1.5 times. So I don't think it's quite the same
> dimensions as it would be by Neil's description. I think
> the first C is in the position of a traditional F, but the
> ledger lines that would normally cut through what used to be
> A and C now cut through what used to be G and B.
Ah, I hadn't noticed that, though funnily enough, it actually makes
the positioning inside the staff much simpler.
> Incidentally, an almost identical system is credited to
> Walter Steffens on p.32 of Gardner Read's "Music Notation".
I thought I'd seen it before. :) The Steffens example has fewer
lines, but the spacing is the same for the wider staff-spaces.
> Would be fun to see this in action.
Any mapping is possible: it's up to the user to write the function
which maps pitches to position, though in this case ly:pitch-semitones
will suffice due to rounding.
\relative c' {
\override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(-4 -2 0 3 5 8 10 12)
\set Staff.middleCPosition = #-10
\set Staff.staffLineLayoutFunction = #ly:pitch-semitones
% these are wrong due to incorrect legers
c1 cis d dis e
% all OK inside stave
f fis g
gis1 a ais b
c1 des d es
e1 f ges g
as1 a bes ces
}
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\remove "Accidental_engraver"
\remove "Time_signature_engraver"
}
}
Cheers,
Neil
Re: Twelve-tone notation, James Bailey, 2010/09/26