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From: | David Zelinsky |
Subject: | Re: The LilyPond syntax for notes |
Date: | Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:22:25 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic@bluewin.ch> writes: > I seem to have read somewhere that the notation such as c’4.. has been > inspired by another well-known syntax, maybe refering to Humdrum. > > Does anyone know more about this? I don't know the history of Lilypond's development. But the notation is very similar to that devised by Helmholtz in the 1860's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_pitch_notation -David
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