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Re: The LilyPond syntax for notes
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David Zelinsky |
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Re: The LilyPond syntax for notes |
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Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:00:28 -0400 |
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Haha! Hermann von Helmholtz was anything but humdrum! :)
-David
Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic@bluewin.ch> writes:
> Hello Andrew and David,
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> Thanks a lot, I had mistaken Humdrum for Helmholtz!
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> JM
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>> Le 18 avr. 2021 à 19:22, David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net> a écrit :
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>> Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic@bluewin.ch> writes:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Does anyone know more about this?
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>> 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.
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation
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>> -David
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