Re: writing score in absolute time

[Andrew Bernard]

My composer colleague always wants to write 3cm = 1 second for his scores. I insist that music is not linear graph paper and never was. So we disagree. I just do not believe musicians read music that way. Yet this is what some people want. Consequently I have looked into this and I do not know of any notation program that can do it. if you think about it, forcing a specific length for bars etc means the sophisticated layout engines cannot do their job.

If I am out of date and this _can+ be done, then I really want to know about it.

Andrew

On 4/02/2023 8:26 pm, Jacopo Greco d'Alceo wrote:

I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to write a lilypond score in absolute time, just giving almost 2 parameters: note and absolute time in seconds, without the measure boundaries.