Re: The LilyPond syntax for notes

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Andrew and David,

Thanks a lot, I had mistaken Humdrum for Helmholtz!

JM

Le 18 avr. 2021 à 19:22, David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net> a écrit :

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