Re: The LilyPond syntax for notes

[David Zelinsky]

Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic@bluewin.ch> writes:

> I seem to have read somewhere that the notation such as c’4.. has been
> inspired by another well-known syntax, maybe refering to Humdrum.
>
> Does anyone know more about this?

I don't know the history of Lilypond's development.  But the notation is
very similar to that devised by Helmholtz in the 1860's.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation


-David