Re: Lilypond workshop will take place online via BigBlueButton on March 31st

[Jim]

I just want to thank Tobias for taking the initiative with this, and to 
encourage anyone interested in music to attend.  I'm not sure whether 
I'll be able to attend because in my time zone it is still part of the 
working day.

Lilypond produces by far the nicest-looking output for any 
computer-typesetting system (and that's the project's design goal).  I 
use it to transcribe Turkish and Arabic music.  Turkish and Arabic music 
use microtones not found in the 12-tone-equal-temperament system on 
which the West is standardized, and notation is not generally supported 
by proprietary systems in the West (Finale, Sibelius, ...).  In fact 
this is a good example of how Free Software enables users, even if they 
don't code themselves:  it's my understanding that Adam Good, who plays 
Turkish music professionally (with NYC band Dolunay among others), 
raised money to hire programmers to extend Lilypond to support Turkish.  
I'm an acquaintance of Adam's and he typically uses proprietary 
software, so he's not using Lilypond (with Frescobaldi) on ideological 
grounds.  Nevertheless he's seeing the benefit of the GPL (as am I!).

If you're curious for what Lilypond looks like, you can see some of my 
transcriptions here: https://we.riseup.net/naafizah/repertoire  Note 
that for Arabic music Lilypond uses a flat with a diagonal line through 
it to represent half-flats rather than the more common backwards flat; 
I'm not sure of the reason for this choice.

-Jim Garrett

On 3/24/21 7:56 AM, Tobias Platen wrote:
> I'm planning a workshop "How to compose songs with GNU/Lilypond and 
> Frescobaldi".
> In this workshop I'll explain how to use lilypond, write a melody and 
> accompaniment,
> exporting a midi for rendering with LMMS, and finally adding a free software 
> virtual singer.
> More information will be posted soon on https://www.qtau.de/.