Re: Stem for French Lute Tablature (Dowland)?

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Hi Devin,

There have been some discussion about that on the list:
- http://lilypond-s-support-for-tablatures.3383434.n2.nabble.com/Baroque-lute-tablature-td4008032.html
- http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Implementing-Baroque-Lute-tablature-td125364.html#a125365

Maybe Trevor would tell you how far he went?

More recently I started something:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Ancient-tablature-template-td160034.html#a160096

And added this on the LSR:
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=920

But, since I'm not a lute player I did not go any further (it was more a tool to make guitar transcriptions)

There's also a new feature with the v2.19 for additional bass strings, see:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index.html

HTH.

Cheers,

Pierre

 

2016-08-18 20:55 GMT+02:00 Devin Ulibarri <address@hidden>:

Hello,

In French Lute tablature (e.g. music of Dowland), the rhythm is:

1. notated as stems above the staff.
2. All the voices are truncated into one (example: if there is quarter
notes in top voice and half notes in bottom, they would all be notated
as quarter notes)
3. The flags are "double" what modern notation uses, so a quarter note
has one flag, eighth note has two flags, etc. Half notes have a kind of
very, very short flag to the left.
4. Stems are only indicated when there is a change in rhythmic value. If
there is a succession of the same rhythmic value, for example, only the
first note will be stemmed until there is a change (e.g. from eighth to
quarter, or eighth to half note, etc.)

This is a decent example: http://www.guitarandlute.com/tab.gif

And this is the file that I am working on:
https://github.com/pikurasa/MutopiaProject/blob/Dowland-Fantasie-7-Variatie-Robert-Dowland/ftp/DowlandJ/Lute/Fantasies/001/A-Fantasie-1-Robert-two-staves.ly

Does anyone know how to indicate this for the tab staff? Is there a
stock command that does this or a hack?

And if this feature does not exist, then where is the best place to
request it?

Thank you,
Devin


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