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Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?
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Henning Hraban Ramm |
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Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing? |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:37:32 +0100 |
I as a singer/songwriter with limited notational skills also use pen and staff
paper for the first draft(s) but then need a tool that lets me hear if I got
the rhythm right. (Even if that’s always a matter of interpretation and may
change in every verse.)
And as a quality aware typesetter and a programmer I just love LilyPond.
But if I’m trying several rhythmic variants (syncopes, triplets), because I
often don’t know what it is exactly what I hear in my head, it’s a tedious
approach to e.g. change several places and maybe voices from syncopation to
tuplets and back, or is it a timing change... Some of my songs are quite
irregular, but I want proper sheets.
Greetlings, Hraban
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Henning Hraban Ramm
http://www.fiee.net
Am 2018-03-23 um 04:34 schrieb Tom Cloyd <address@hidden>:
> I have always found that nothing beats plain pencil and sheets of staff
> paper, until I have the basic piece fairly complete. For me, it's clearly
> faster to make even a second draft on paper than to move at that point to LP
> and continue from there. I consider fast "hand writing" on staff paper to be
> a basic composing skill, long used by those who come before us.
>
> Working this way, alterations are so much easier, in the initial stages.
> Later, I find the reverse to be true. I do love getting to the point where
> it's time to produce an actual engraved score, but revisions certainly do
> continue after that.
>
> Tom
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Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?, Nathan Sprangers, 2018/03/24