Re: Summer of Code inquiry

[Andrew Bernard]

Re contemporary notation, I disagree with this. I work professionally on 
New Complexity School scores, and every composer has their own notation 
and preferences and idiosyncrasies. Other contemporary schools all have 
their own individual styles. We are nowhere near standardisation of the 
sort that applies to Common Era music. I have a Scheme library of code 
for my engraving that took fours years to develop in conjunction with my 
composer colleague. It's completely meaningless for anybody else. I 
don't know of many composers settling on Lachenmann notation, and 
indeed, many composers refuse to settle on a standard as part of their 
entire aesthetic. I think this is why the contemporary notation project 
has stalled - there is no and will not be any uniformity to make it 
worthwhile.

I'd suggest you look at other aspects of LilyPond to work on, sincerely. 
Maybe something really practically useful like MusicXML work.

I thought MAX is not open source, but a quite expensive commercial 
program from Cycling74?

https://cycling74.com/shop

Does not really fit the open source world of LilyPond, even though one 
library project may be open source.

Or you could fix Issue 34!


Andrew


On 21/11/2020 5:00 am, 98123981293 1293812397123 wrote:
> Ok; the project concerning contemporary notation looks interesting and like
> it may leverage my background; per that problem description, re: specific
> composers: Helmut Lachenmann's notation is becoming widespread, so perhaps
> it would be worthwhile to engrave an entire score by this composer and
> develop custom Scheme extensions for doing so. Also, thank you for the
> Gitlab link and tip on "Frog" problems; I'll get set up there and start
> watching for things I can help on.