[PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 2:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux
> 
> Le 2012-03-05 à 19:58:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :
> 
>>  It can be dangerous/misleading to extract the general rule from one single, 
> very specific example like this, and then re-apply it to a totally different 
> domain/example.
> 
> Yes, but then, the reasoning that you stated is not what you actually meant. 
> You're not trying to say that it doesn't make sense to use something 
> that is primarily a typesetting system, to do midi output. It may be because 
> Lilypond in particular is bad at this task in particular, but you already are 
> generalising by calling it « a midi creator » and « a typesetting system » and 
> that a fact about the latter in general justifies a statement about the former 
> in general.

I gave you a link to show what Lilypond _actually_ does.

The \articulation command just changes the input for all articulations that can be 
simulated by altering the actual note values.  So for staccato, a note value is changed 
to a smaller note value plus a rest, legato is changed to two voices that slightly 
overlap*, and so on.  Of course this is clunky, because if you want to look at the 
score and listen to the MIDI output you need to render twice-- once using the 
\articulation command for the MIDI output, and another without it to get the score 
looking as it normally would (though I may be missing some command that will 
automate this).

Without the \articulation command, you can get basic MIDI output for things like 
dynamic changes and markings, and tempo changes:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/creating-midi-files

* A former piano teacher of mine termed this technique "California legato"-- that is, 
playing one note, then playing the next while lazily releasing the first note. 
This was a derogatory term, meant to chide the performer for going after easy 
note-to-note connections at the expense of melodic clarity.  (Similar to keeping the 
pedal fully down through changes in harmony.)

-Jonathan

> 
> I'm not saying that I really expressed myself well in yesterday's 
> reply... It was a bad way to put it.
> 
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