Steve D wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
Cool. If you don't mind I might take a swing at arranging Arabesque for
two guitars. Please advise if that's kosher with you.
That's fine with me, David. In fact it's flattering when someone else
think's highly enough of one's creative product to want to something
with it him- or herself. My audio and notated music is released under
a very liberal Creative Commons license. People can do whatever they
like with it. It would be great to see a score or hear a two-guitar
performance of the piece, if you do decide to do that.
Ach, sorry, Steve, it's Abstract I was considering. I'm going to take a
closer look at it today to see what I'll have to change to cram it into
2-guitar space. :)
[re: LilyPond]
Yes, LilyPond is fantastic. I love it. I used to use Finale, but once I
got used to LilyPond's text-entry method of notating, I realized I like
it better than graphical entry for some reason.
I'm getting so fast with it that I can't imagine a GUI doing as well.
Denemo and NoteEdit function nicely as front-ends for LilyPond
(Rosegarden too), but now the GUI just seems like so much trouble to
deal with. Weird.
Your pieces look great. I see that in Umeko you used the \set
tieWaitForNote feature. I happily sponsored (financially) the
development of that feature in LilyPond last year (I needed it for
written-out arpeggios which are tied to a following chord), and
sponsored further development and improvement of the tie code this year.
Ties are looking very nice in LilyPond nowadays, and it feels good to
support such a worthy project (one of numerous worthy open-source
projects).
Thanks for supporting the project, I hope more LAU folks donate to their
favorite soundapps.
Btw, I've updated my LilyPond site again. I added two more guitar
pieces, both arrangements this time, and I'll be putting up some more
original music soon. I'm having a ball with LilyPond these days. If
anyone's interested:
http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/
Best,
dp
