Re: historical treatises – various questions

[Urs Liska]

Hi Derek,

Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2020, 16:40 +0200 schrieb Derek Remeš:

Greetings,

I’m considering making a modern edition/translation of a very large historical treatise in lyluatex.

Good idea :-)

The first example is attached. As a newbie with Lilypond/Frescobaldi I have several questions for which I can’t seem to find answers. How can I...

(1) ...place a time signature in brackets to show that it is editorial?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/snippets/staff-notation#staff-notation-time-signature-in-parentheses-_002d-method-3

(2) ...fix the incipit to omit the C and center the original clef?

(3) ...start the next example with a new tim sig, key sig, bar numbers, instrument names, and indent? Or should I make separate .ly files? There would be hundreds...

Definitely separate examples. Ideally you should have some sort of infrastructure for managing that.

I have just done that with the music examples for Leopold Mozart's violin school (600-700 examples, depending on the counting). Definitely you should have one file per example, plus a common LilyPond infrastructure to include from each .ly file.

Depending on the time frame of your project I might help you. For the Mozart I created an extension to Frescobaldi managing the repertoire (see attached screenshot), but I have the strong incentive to generalize this approach; having a concrete project for that might help pushing it forward and having a basis for investigating the generalization.

(4) …have lilypond label all examples consecutively? Or should lyluatex do this at the compilation stage?

I would *suggest* doing that in the LaTeX domain. Not lyluatex but something else. Depending on what you want it will probably the best idea to just use figure environments, which give you automatic numbering and even an automatic list of figures (or my not-yet-finished lyluateXMP package that also handles missing or failed scores in a straightforward fashion.

(5) …show the page numbers of the original treatise at the top of the system: previous page# | next page# ?

Create a music function that you can use like

\originalPageBreak 12 13

which then will insert *something* at that point in a consistent manner (including an actual break if at one point you want to have it that way, e.g. for proof-reading). See https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly/blob/master/usage-examples/diplomatic-line-breaks.ly and https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly/blob/master/usage-examples/diplomatic-line-breaks.preview.png for an example.

Any other suggestions for incorporating large amounts of text and numerous complex musical examples (such as in textbooks)?

One very general suggestion: If you are going to use lyluatex you will use LuaLaTeX, and that gives you pretty much power to use Lua for purposes of building/composing documents from arbitrarily-formatted input data.

HTH Urs

Many thanks,

Derek

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Derek Remeš
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Dozent für Musiktheorie an der Hochschule Luzern - Musik
(Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Editor-in-chief of the journal Music Theory and Analysis
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