Dear Devin,
there's also the "society for ekmelic music" in Salzburg, Austria.
They also support mictronal notation with lilypond.
Have a look at
http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/extra/ekmelily.htm#Download
Maybee this helps You!
Best,
Stefan
Hi All,
I need help from users who have some experience with microtonality
(or overrides in general) in Lilypond to create a recipe for
lilypond notation for the Kite Guitar (kiteguitar.com [1]). The Kite
Guitar uses 41 equal divisions of the octave in a clever way, which
balances practicality with playability to get a very close
approximation to 7-limit Just Intonation. I have made some attempts,
but I don't really know Lilypond so well that I can create a handy
recipe such as this. I did some research and found
http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ which is helpful, but I am unable to make
the necessary tweaks with my limited knowledge. (I am happy to send
over what I tried to do, but as my attempts have only failed I do
not want to confuse anyone.)
The overarching specs are:
1. 41 Equal Divisions of the Octave
Tablature-specific:
2. Frets are spaced two EDO-steps apart (i.e. 2 of the 41)
3. Strings are tuned 13 EDO-steps apart (i.e. 13 of the 41)
^^Lilypond will either need to find the pitch, or allow the user to
override the current calculation as what I am getting is for a
standard guitar.
Notation-specific:
4. There are Sharps and Flats, but there are also upwards "^",
double-upwards "^^", downwards "v", and "double-downwards "vv". (see
https://en.xen.wiki/w/Ups_and_Downs_Notation ) 5. There needs to be
some way to set upwards/downwards in the key signature. ^^ it would
be super-nice if this could be done globally, so that a composer can
focus on the music-making
Chord-charts:
6. Support for chord charts such as
https://en.xen.wiki/w/Kite_Guitar_Translations_by_Aaron_Wolf#Auld_Lang_Syne
Any help is appreciated. The growing community of Kite Guitar
players would really appreciate this (many of whom are fellow
software libre supporters/advocates). Also, I can send over some
sample scores created with MuseScore once I receive permission to
share them.
Thanks in Advance!
Devin
Links:
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[1] http://kiteguitar.com