OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

That's always been a pain point for me. No quarter tone notation rules out a lot, including most of Arabic and Turkish, and much of Greek maqam music.

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by a-nikolaev » Sun, Sep 06, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

Just a sidenote that the Opusmodus software is not open source, not free, and works only on Mac.

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Sun, Sep 06, 2015, 11:32 PM UTC

It would be easy enough to write a parser for this.

Interesting that they see it as a way to freeform new compositional ideas.

Over the years I've tried a huge selection of music composition software. I've yet to find something that's both easy and composable. It may be, just like the CLI/GUI discussion -- plain text may win out over a lot of mousing around and clicking.

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by kregasaurusrex » Mon, Sep 07, 2015, 12:55 AM UTC

What information does OMN contained that isn't preserved in sheet music already? I was looking at OCR tools a few months back and found OpenOMR which expresses the MIDI instruction with all of these properties.

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by colomon » Mon, Sep 07, 2015, 1:38 AM UTC

saljam wrote: post #4

Does this have notation for quarter tones? I can't find that on their website. That's always been a pain point for me. No quarter tone notation rules out a lot, including most of Arabic and Turkish, and much of Greek maqam music.

Dunno about OMN, but Lilypond seems to have quarter tone support: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big... (third staff down)

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by colomon » Mon, Sep 07, 2015, 1:43 AM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #3

z3ugma wrote: post #2

Also worth a look is Lilypond http://www.lilypond.org/ .

Do these really need a separate post? They're already in the existing one.

Where? I admit I haven't read the entire thing (as it got boring fast) but a search on a couple of the pages doesn't turn up the word Lilypond?

Re: OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation

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Post by knz42 » Mon, Sep 07, 2015, 5:40 AM UTC

There's a conceptual issue with the language and a missing example: what of chords where one part of the chord is pressed longer than another? Or when one part must be staccato and another not?

I can't seem to see how this is expressed with OMN.