On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
Hi again Blaise, This one is really fun from a creative standpoint. You wrote,
For music notation there are a couple, ABC Notation is included in Debian, which I understand is a really simple tool. there are some more complete doors though,
I wouldn't discount ABC notation as being too simple. I haven't used it yet, but it's been on my radar for a while. It could be very useful for entry and editing, because you can do that all in plain text, and then convert to MIDI or typeset with Lilypond.
This is the nifty thing about creating here. do I want to create the music in midi files first then turn them into notation, or the other way around? decisions, decisions.
Speaking from my experience with music. You could tell someone you want a regular 4 beat with pizzaz AND swing and I would understand that what was on the page might be square but that I was to do x with that notation and that would make it come alive. Western music notation has so many things it can't notate. That's why you can get 10 different people doing something and have30 different versions of something that's interesting! Interesting music notated by a computer might be rather wickedly difficult for the 'normal' musician to read and do. YMMV snip Over to you. Dee