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Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond
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David Bobroff |
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Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:34:48 +0000 |
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On 3/12/2012 2:15 PM, John Link wrote:
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:01 AM, David Bobroff wrote:
On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote:
1) What is the easiest way to extract parts from a score?
A Zen master would reply "mu" (= un-ask the question). "Extracting"
parts is a meaningless idea in LilyPond.
I thought that might be the case. However, I need to supply my
musicians with parts so the task is meaningful even if extracting
parts is not.
You can certainly *create* separate parts, but you don't really extract
them from anything. What I meant was, you don't extract the part from
the score. You make a 'full-score.ly' file and a 'flute1.ly' file etc.
My usual practice is to write all the definitions (musical information)
in one file. Then I write other files for the score and parts. You can
"include" a file in another file. This has the advantage that when you
make edits in your "definitions" file they propagate to all the scores
(parts) the next time you process them. No need to "re-extract" a part
as used to be the case with Finale/Sibelius (I think that has changed,
though). This business of 'include' is rather like the 'include' thing
in programming where you call a library. In essence, you build a
library of musical information and then call it to build your scores/parts.
What you actually do is build scores. A score may consist of a
full orchestral score, or a two-measure example of a melody. Have
you gone through the tutorial yet?
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/tutorial
That's really the place to start. Oh, another thing; Getting your
work flow set up makes a lot of difference. While there are
graphical front-ends available for LilyPond
Where might I find them?
Go here:
http://lilypond.org/website/text-input.html
Check out that page and at the bottom it has a link called "Easier
editing" (below "Where now?")
I prefer straight text editing.
Why is that?
I find it much faster than clicking/dragging/etc. C major scale in 8th
notes in thirds:
{ c8 e d f e g f a g b a c b d c }
My preference is Emacs (on Windows or Linux). There is a file for
setting up Emacs to recognize LilyPond input files which makes
editing a lot easier. Things get color-coded and indents are set up,
etc.
2) Are there any features in Finale (or Sibelius or any other
scorewriter with a GUI) that you wish you had in LilyPond?
I can't think of one. Then again, I haven't used anything but
LilyPond for at least ten years.
Impressive! Can you now create scores as quickly as you used to in Finale?
At least as quickly. Probably faster, actually.
I was trying to persuade a friend to try LilyPond but it turned out he
was pretty math-phobic and found the input too much like writing math
equations. Then he was grousing because another cheap commercial
program couldn't do 5/4. Just to razz him a bit I did this:
http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/lilypond/lilyShowOff.png
There are way more arbitrary/pointless things one can do with LilyPond
than this. Just think what you can do with *real* music!
-David
- Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, John Link, 2012/03/12
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- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Stjepan Horvat, 2012/03/13
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Tim Roberts, 2012/03/13
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Francisco Vila, 2012/03/13
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Janek Warchoł, 2012/03/14
Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, James Harkins, 2012/03/12