Re: [Denemo-devel] Instrument templates (was Re: Playback View: an important advance for Denemo)

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 08:26 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I very rarely ever see the ottava bassa on classical guitar piece.
> When I see it, I am not thrown off by it. In my template I used a
> normal trble clef and set the tranposition to -12. I will use ottava
> bassa if That is the more proper thing to do.
> 
Well, yes it is more "proper" since the pitch is an octave lower than
treble clef. But I've no doubt some users will want a treble clef
sounding and octave lower but not saying so, so we could do with both.

Needing even more sorting out would be transposing instruments - some
people would want to enter the music at actual pitch, others would want
to enter at the transposed pitch... I recall that LilyPond has special
midi-transpose syntax in this connection.

Richard


> Jeremiah
> 
> On Jan 16, 2016 3:23 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 22:55 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>         > template for classical guitar.
>         
>         Classical guitar has a quirk: it should be in the treble
>         ottava bassa
>         clef (i.e. with an italic 8 underneath the treble clef) but
>         that is
>         often omitted in sloppy typesets. It needs to be there to
>         avoid the
>         music being entered an octave out; we could with some effort
>         provide a
>         template that used the correct pitches but drew the clef
>         without the 8
>         for those who find the 8 irritating. (The problem would start
>         to show if
>         someone was doing chamber music including guitar ...)
>         
>         Richard
>         
>