Re: Free time

[Karlin High]

On 10/2/2020 7:36 PM, Gonsolo wrote:
> I sent an image in my original email.

Sorry, communication failure. The image of a MIDI "piano roll" did come 
through. I was assuming you wanted those pitches and durations written 
in staff notation somehow - with note heads, stems, slurs, and such.

I am attaching a screenshot of the YouTube video linked in an earlier 
message, showing the Louis Couperin "Unmeasured" prelude for 
harpsichord. This notation needs more than one slur at a time, and the 
latest version of LilyPond can do this as Kieran MacMillan showed.

But for your project, I understand this only solves "part of the problem 
of free standing notes in free time," and "the best method would be 
beams instead of notes."

I think the fastest way to get good help would be getting some blank 
staff paper, perhaps by this method...

<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/snippets/staff-notation#staff-notation-creating-blank-staves>

...and hand-drawing a short portion of the notation results you want. 
Here is a past example of someone doing this:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-07/msg00067.html>

That page will have a link for a PNG attachment showing the hand-drawn 
notation.

That is from Andrew Bernard, whose posts would have many other such 
examples from his work with very exacting "New Complexity School" 
composers. Here's another one, also with a link to a PNG image:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-06/msg00143.html>
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA

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