7 thoughts on “999”

  1. I get it now. That’s a very handy tool, though, and it’s nice to see that you only have to tell it which C to work from once through the chromatics going up. This is pretty sophisticated stuff. Glad it’s free.

  2. “c” is middle c. when i state “\relative c'” i’m telling it that the c that i’m talking about is one octave higher than middle c, and then it assumes the rest. if i wanted to go back to the c that i started from i would put a comma – , – after one note, and the notes would go back down to the “\relative c'” that they started from… i think (i haven’t played around with “\relative” that much)…

    or you can specifically state octaves by putting apostrophes or commas after the note, relative to middle c, but after two of them they get kinda hard to read: in treble clef, the c in the middle of the staff would be c’, and in bass clef, the c at the bottom of the staff would be c,

  3. That is precisely what I’m talking about. I can’t decode where such things appear, other than somehow, I suspect the “Relative C” designation has something to do with it.

  4. i assume what you’re talking about is something like this:

    \version "2.8.0"

<<
\new Staff { \clef treble \relative c'' { c,, cis des d dis ees f fis ges g
gis aes a ais bes b c cis des d dis ees f fis ges g gis aes a ais bes b c
cis des d dis ees f fis ges g gis aes a ais bes b c cis des d dis ees f fis
ges g gis aes a ais bes b c } }
\new Staff { \clef bass \relative c, { c, cis des d dis ees f fis ges g gis
aes a ais bes b c cis des d dis ees f fis ges g gis aes a ais bes b c cis
des d dis ees f fis ges g gis aes a ais bes b c cis des d dis ees f fis ges
g gis aes a ais bes b c } }
>>

  5. Wow. That is impressive. I assume there’s something in the markup for when you want to move above and below the staff, when those things happen in the composition. Definitely need to remember this if I ever get into the composition part of life.

  6. it’s music notation software, like sibelius, except that it doesn’t have the quirks that sibelius has, and it produces more legible music more of the time… of course it also doesn’t have the fancy wysiwyg front end that sibelius has, you have to learn a simple markup language similar to html, but that’s fairly easy, and even easier if you’re musically inclined to begin with… and the really cool part about it is that it’s free, whereas if you want to use sibelius, you end up having to pay $400 or thereabouts.

  7. Lilypond looks interesting. Something to use for the Fremont Phil in making good-looking sheet music, then?

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