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Re: A must-see for anybody on this list
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Joseph Rushton Wakeling |
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Re: A must-see for anybody on this list |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:50:13 +0100 |
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On 02/14/2013 05:32 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
Maybe I'll get in touch with you before. I already intended to present the
outline of the presentation here and ask for feedback - I think it's an issue
that concerns many of us ...
(The presentation is due at the end of April, so it will be some time still).
That'd be great. There's a paper I'm working on right now (not oriented towards
music) which I'll try and share with you when it's done -- might be useful
despite its different orientation.
From the discussion on this list I assume that there are two very different
'stages' to this. One is the raw musical content, which seems to be quite easily
converted (I think something like an XSLT-like transformation of LilyPond's
music stream).
If one wants to also export LilyPond's layout qualities it would be much more
intricate because at the time LilyPond makes its layout decisions that music
stream isn't available anymore.
What I was thinking of was e.g. how well the conversion process would preserve
articulations, ornaments, etc. Some layout aspects here have "raw musical
content" value, e.g. think of a turn that is placed on the second half of a note.
Preparing a "manuscript" with LilyPond isn't the way to go because nowadays many
(most) publishers won't pay engraving staff when they also can get editors doing
that work for free. (This actually is the reason I didn't get a contract for
editing a few works for UE).
True with composers too, I think. I remember about 14 years back a friend told
me that his publisher had got in touch with him and said, "OK, we're going to
buy you a copy of Finale. The quid pro quo is that now you do all your own
score preparation."
Then again, when you go to many 20th-century works, the score is often just a
facsimile of the composer's fair copy.
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, (continued)
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Thomas Morley, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, David Kastrup, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Luca Rossetto Casel, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, David Kastrup, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Urs Liska, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Urs Liska, 2013/02/14
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list,
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- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Urs Liska, 2013/02/14
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- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Urs Liska, 2013/02/14