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Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows
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Joseph Wakeling |
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Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows |
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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:08:59 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090319) |
Graham Breed wrote:
> If there's some intuitive reason for choosing different logical
> equivalents, perhaps that should be reflected in different pitch
> alterations anyway.
This was certainly one thought going through my head. Though it's not
something I write myself, I was also thinking somewhat of Ben Johnston's
notation for just intonation, where each successive addition to the
accidentals (up/down arrows, 13 or upside-down 13, + or -) represents a
successive refinement of the pitch.
This second case might well be best dealt with via 'tweaks' instead of
accidentals in the conventional case.
> The idea is you can only have one set of quartertone symbols at a time,
> but you can use a \tweak or \override to switch between sets. I have
> proof of concept examples for pure/mixed Sagittal.
>
> The cheating looks fine until you want to do transpositions.
> Transposing C up-a-quartertone up by the same quartertone won't give C
> sharp, for example. If you think it should that's an indication you're
> treating quartertones equally, of course.
That's an interesting point. It hadn't occurred to me that this might
be an issue -- I don't think I will be using quarter-tone transpositions
in my own writing any time soon -- but I'll do a couple of experiments
to see if I can get my cheat to deal with this possibility.
- Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Hans Aberg, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Kees van den Doel, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Kees van den Doel, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/06
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Kees van den Doel, 2009/04/06
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/07
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/07
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows, Graham Breed, 2009/04/05
- Re: Quarter-tone notation with arrows,
Joseph Wakeling <=
- Transposition with arrow quarter-tone notation, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/04/19