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Re: final touches to the score
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Sarah k Alawami |
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Re: final touches to the score |
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Sun, 12 May 2013 20:24:54 -0700 |
> Hey thanks for pointing those out. I'm still having failed bar checks where
> there is a pick up note in to the measure, but the check fail happens at the
> end of the repeat where that measure is incomplete anyway. Here is the
> attached almost corrupted ly file.
final score.ly
Description: Binary data
I'm still having issues with the grace notes though. I don't know what's up
there. Any help, please?
Thanks and be blessed.
On May 12, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:
> On May 12, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
>> Ok. can someone please go over the score and correct what I missed? I think
>> I missed some braces and misplaced some accent marks but please let me know
>> if the notes are in the proper ranges of the instruments as I'm still 1,
>> learning them and 2, learning lily pond. I still could not get the bass drum
>> and snare and symbol in lile the teacher wanted as I was unsure how to add
>> those and I"m working on a misstranscribed copy in braille so some notes
>> might be wrong, but I'll let my professor know
>>
>> Also how will I get all of this to fit on 8.5 by 14 inch legal paper? what
>> do I need to modify in the paper block to get this to print out correctly
>> tomorrow? Attached is the ly file. You guys have been so so helpful and I'm
>> just trying to fight my way through to the end of this project. lol!
>
> There are multiple LilyPond problems as identified in the error log.
>
> The first attempt at compiling failed due to a note spelled as G4 instead of
> g4 at line 397. If that is fixed, it will compile but badly. You should be
> able to catch that one easily, since the error log gives you the line number.
> There are many barcheck failures meaning you've got some errors in time
> values- bars that don't add up to 12/8. The barchecks should also give you
> information about where the problem is, but I never use them because my
> charts are simple lead sheets with a melody and chordnames, so it's easy to
> troubleshoot those problems.
>
> You've got a \partial that is not at the beginning of the piece; indeed,
> you've got two \partials, one before the \volta and one afterwards. It is
> the latter that LilyPond is probably complaining about, because \partial
> should only be used before the first bar.
>
> Things like \accent, \grace etc. should not have a space between them and the
> note. It's c4\accent and not c4 \accent. I've never used \grace notes in a
> chart, so I don't know but I would guess that if the \grace is detached from
> the note, then it would be counted differently and might result in some of
> your barcheck problems. BTW, \accent goes *after* the accented note without
> a separating space, it is not clear looking at your .ly file to which note
> the \accent marks refer.
>
> I think there are problems with \repeat percent 1 and \repeat percent 2 but I
> don't know the correct usage of those; I use \repeat volta in my charts but
> otherwise just write out short passages that are repeated. Relying on the
> musician's memory creates a higher risk of performance errors.
>
>
> There are also multiple musical problems.
>
> The ranges of several/most instruments are obviously incorrect. For example,
> in the first measure, the bassoon is 7 ledger lines below the staff- and
> playing two notes at once. I don't know the range of the bassoon but I doubt
> it is that many octaves below middle C. I think the bassoon is normally
> written in bass clef and you've got it in treble clef. At the end, the cello
> notes are 16 ledger lines above the staff and the bass is 18 ledger lines
> above, which neither instrument could possibly play and no one could sight
> read in performance. There are other range problems in other places, but
> you'll never see those until you can get it to compile by fixing that G4.
>
> You've got the violin and viola playing four note chords. Can they even
> physically do that?
>
> It looks like you've got multiple instruments playing in the wrong keys (if
> the concert instruments are playing in G (one sharp), the Bb clarinet,
> trumpet, etc. should be notated in their transposed keys (A or three sharps
> in this case). "Horn in F" appears reasonably transposed from G major to C
> major. As for naming instruments by specific transposition, it is more usual
> to call a "Clarinet in Bb" a "Bb Clarinet" to avoid confusion (it looks like
> you are saying the clarinet should be playing in Bb even though the key
> signature is G major); I also think that the convention is that a clarinet is
> a Bb transposing instrument unless otherwise stated (e.g., Eb clarinet). As
> for "Trumpet in C," trumpet is a Bb transposing instrument and I have never
> seen a non-transposing trumpet (i.e., C trumpet), although they could exist
> and I could just be ignorant... I have not played orchestral music since
> playing cello in the 4th grade- almost 45 years ago).
>
> One pretty easy thing, though. You can set paper size in the \paper block
> with #(set-paper-size "size") but I don't know what sizes LilyPond allows
> other than "letter" (8 1/2 x 11") or A4 (which is the default). I am sure
> that's in the manual under the information for the \paper block. On the
> assumption that LilyPond knows about US letter and legal sizes, it should
> look something like this:
>
> \paper {
> #(set-paper-size "legal")
> indent = 3.0\cm % space for instrumentName
> short-indent = 1.5\cm % space for shortInstrumentName
> }
>
> If that doesn't work, check the manual for information about setting paper
> sizes.
>
>
> I've attached the compiled PDF so you can see it, in case it won't compile
> for you (and it shouldn't as LilyPond is picky about note names being in
> lower case and that G4 should choke it).
>
> Good luck! You're in the home stretch now. This is the mop-up part of the
> process.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> <final score.pdf>