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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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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:07 +0100 |
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On 02/12/2013 08:41 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
If you want different passages in music behave differently when included
in a single \transpose command, that more or less means that they need
to use different callbacks at least in some anchoring expressions (like
we use a relative-callback for doing \relative on diverse expressions).
But how would one deal with quoted music?
By default, you'd use the rule that had been set for the music being quoted,
rather than that which has been set in the current staff/voice. You'd probably
need to have an override option to choose the opposite (i.e. to use the current
staff/voice rules and not those set in the quoted music).
Think of it this way: if I quote a tonal passage in the middle of a part whose
own music is chromatic/atonal, I still want that quoted passage to behave
tonally (and vice versa).
One implementation strategy might be to _not_ use callbacks for
transposing at all, but instead have a callback for cleaning up after
transposition. Those callbacks would then be exercised only when
scorifying (meaning that they would not bother about correcting
accidentals to the printable range when transposing back and forth).
Everything before that stage would not be restricted concerning its
accidentals (like having 4 sharps on a note).
I certainly think there's some value in having the cleanup done after all
transposition has been completed.
In that sense there are at least 2 ways that you can go about things. One is of
course just to "normalize" alterations that are greater than some interval
(depending on the note -- c, e, f and b need different rules to d, g and a).
This would be most appropriate for chromatic music. For tonal music, it might
be handy if the cleanup process could anticipate enharmonic equivalences and
hence infer transpositions that would clean up the excessive accidentals.
E.g. suppose I have a passage in the key of G flat major (6 sharps), and one
part is for clarinet in A. The strict minor-third transposition from a to c'
would see this appearing in B-double-flat major. Could a cleanup process
reasonably infer "I should implicitly insert a transposition from B-double-flat
to A"? Could it do so in the absence of an explicit key signature?
N.B. there does exist music with triple sharps and flats out there ...
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, (continued)
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, David Kastrup, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Janek Warchoł, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, David Kastrup, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, David Kastrup, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list,
Joseph Rushton Wakeling <=
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/02/12
- Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Janek Warchoł, 2013/02/12
Re: A must-see for anybody on this list, Andrew Bernard, 2013/02/12
- 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