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Re: mulitple time signatures, long scale
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: mulitple time signatures, long scale |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:27:32 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:56 am, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > "David Hughes" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Is LilyPond able to create multiple time signatures occuring at the
> > > same time on seperate staves?
> >
> > Yes, see:
> >
> >
> > http://www.lilypond.org/development/input/test/out-www/collated-files
> >.html#poly-metric.ly
>
> To my surprise, I found the word "polymetric" defined in HDM. Even
> if you had coined the word, however, I don't think that there is
> any example of a hyphen following the prefix "poly", e.g.: polymath,
> polygamy, polyrhythm, polytonal, etc. I think you
> want the hyphen out so that users can search the document and find
> "polymetric". DaveA
point taken.
> >
> > I'm afraid that Finale does not really compare to LilyPond. Both
> > print notes, but for the rest they are totally different beasts.
>
> Yes, and there are three ways of approaching the idea of a shortcut
> for a long scale.
>
> 1. You can program your music source, as in the
> famous "hoom-pah".
That's actually been removed from the tutorial. We have a repeated
Seufzer now, though.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen