Re: [Denemo-devel] Musical ways of entering music.

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 16:00 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:02 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > One of the things that I have been discovering with Denemo is the
> > usefulness of having musical ways of entering music into a score.
> > 
> > Until now, the worst bit, for me, has been entering the figures in
> > continuo parts. So mechanical. Such a brain-ache.
> > With the possibility of Midi-keyboard shortcuts comes the chance to
> > enter them by playing the bass note & while holding down this note
> > playing the notes indicated by the figures. Not only can you hear the
> > harmonies, but you get to practice relating the figures to the notes
> > (assuming you are transcribing from something already figured).
> > 
> > Of course, there's not a lot of demand for that sort of thing nowadays,
> > but it brings into sharp relief the crucial role of design in the
> > creating of a midi shortcut system. 
> 
> This could probably be scripted also.
? Do you mean creating a "midi shorcut creation system" could be
scripted? The problem could be that the filtering of midi events might
need to be done more efficiently than could be done by executing rules
written in scheme.

>  Starting with a simple texture continuo could be auto generated based off 
> the figured bass. 
I think it would be difficult - you do sometimes see editions where a
chord is placed on each main beat in a mechanical sort of way. I imagine
it sounds terrible. In any case, for myself, it would be useless as the
art of figured bass is to improvise an accompaniment from the harmonies
implied by the figures. Having a staff filled with chords inbetween the
part you are accompanying and the bass you are playing would not help
me.
> 
> > One thing I am thinking about is that it is quite easy to allow a script
> > to ask for a midi event, process it as it sees fit and then continue
> > asking until it receives some special event. Should we be packaging the
> > midi events up before working with them - turning them into semantic
> > units? If so, how can we do this without seriously impairing the
> > customizability?
> 
> Can you give some more examples or more specific ideas here.
Nils has given a good example, and I have discussed it further there.
Richard