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Re: Lute tablature
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Rune Zedeler |
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Re: Lute tablature |
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Fri, 16 May 2003 22:43:27 +0200 |
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Laura Conrad wrote:
One major difference between Dowland's tablature and the
guitar tab that lilypond defaults to is that the fret
indications are letters and not numbers. Has anyone created a
tablature-format function that would do this?
#(define (fret-letter-tablature-format string tuning pitch)
(make-string 1 (integer->char
(+ (char->integer #\a)
(- (ly:pitch-semitones pitch)
(list-ref tuning (- string 1)))))))
\score {
<
\property Score.tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format
...
Another problem is that not all lutes have the same number of
strings (or more precisely, courses), and Dowland dealt with
this by generally using 6 string tablature, but occasionally
using a ledger line if he was specifying a fret on the seventh
(or even lower) course. Would lily allow this?
It is easy to typeset numbers outsides the staff - just specify a string
number to great/small to fit into the tab. Getting ledger lines is more
tricky because ledger lines are currently created by the note-heads
engraver which is not used in the tabstaff. I would not know how to put
ledgers into tabs.
Another problem is that I wasn't planning on figuring out
the pitch Dowland was specifying in order to enter the tab.
Why shouldn't I just be able to enter the tab (and the tuning
table for the strings), and have the computer figure out the
pitch?
Hmmm... This is impossible. How would you distiguish cis from des?
I also don't see any examples of tab with the note values
indicated by stems above the staff the way the Dowland tab has
it.
No comments on this one right now, sorry. IIRC a function was once added
to draw stems outsides the staff - but I cannot just find it...
-Rune
- Lute tablature, Laura Conrad, 2003/05/16
- Re: Lute tablature,
Rune Zedeler <=
- Re: Lute tablature, Laura Conrad, 2003/05/16
- Re: Lute tablature, Rune Zedeler, 2003/05/16
- Re: Lute tablature, Laura Conrad, 2003/05/16
- Re: Lute tablature, Taco Walstra, 2003/05/19
- Re: Lute tablature, Laura Conrad, 2003/05/19
- Re: Lute tablature, David Raleigh Arnold, 2003/05/19
- Re: Lute tablature, Laura Conrad, 2003/05/19
- Re: Lute tablature, Taco Walstra, 2003/05/20
- Re: Lute tablature, Mats Bengtsson, 2003/05/20
- Re: Lute tablature, David Raleigh Arnold, 2003/05/20