Re: arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and lilypond

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: "T.F. Torrey" <tftorrey@tftorrey.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and lilypond
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 21:31:49 -0500	[thread overview]
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:24 PM, T.F. Torrey <tftorrey@tftorrey.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > From: Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de>
> > Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:26:39 +0200
> > To: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
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> > Subject: [Orgmode] arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and
> lilypond
> > Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+tftorrey=tftorrey.com@gnu.org
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I believe that many members of this list with an interest in music
> (notation/composition) might find the http://lilypond.org project
> "addictive" (in the nicest possible manner): the concept is rather similar
> to writing TeX, there is very good Emacs support (if you know where to
> look), it is all OpenSource, there is extensive documentation (in LaTeX
> format with embedded lilypond snippets), the print quality is excellent.
> >
> > I mention this because while arranging some piece of music recently, I
> noticed that Org-mode might be helpful in this context - it is probably
> already possible by tweaking org-babel a bit: lilypond encourages the user
> to structure music in a way that lends itself rather naturally to processing
> with Org-mode - you can assign a theme, a few bar with notes or even whole
> voices to variables and use them repeatedly. And imagine using Org-mode's
> outline capabilities to structure a piece of music. Exporting an org-file
> with lilypond-snippets in it to PDF or HTML might also be an interesting
> option.
> >
> > I have not yet put any effort into it and just wanted to find out if
> anybody apart from me finds the combination of Org-mode and lilypond
> (potentially) exciting.
>
> I think this is very exciting.
>

Agreed! I've used Lilypond before and it's *awesome.* It's pretty much as
cool as LaTeX in my opinion. Write some text, export and holy crap you've
got magically beautiful sheet music! I had not thought of Org-mode
integration, but that would indeed be quite nifty.

John

>
> Best regards,
> Terry
>
> > Warm regards,
> >  Stefan
> > --
> > Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
> > Head of IT group
> > Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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