Suggestions for software to typeset Turkish art and folk music in the conventional way? I use Macs and I doubt there is a Mac-based solution - so,
something that will run on an antiquated junk-quality Windows machine of the kind I might get for nearly free, but still generate good PDFs.
(Motivated by trying to use Jonathan Gemmill's book - the only way it's going to work is if I re-typeset everything I want to play).alim - 4-16-2018 at 08:10 AM
That looks like it should do it - thanks!Microber - 4-16-2018 at 02:04 PM
I use Musescore on pc and it works fine.
It's free and it exists for a lot of OS, including Mac. https://musescore.org/en/download al-Halabi - 4-16-2018 at 02:42 PM
Mus2 was developed in Turkey and is geared to accommodating all the requirements of Turkish musical notation. Does MuseScore make it possible to add
the accidentals specific to Turkish music to the standard Western accidentals that appear in the program's palette?
@al-Halabi
Microber - 4-17-2018 at 04:02 AM
Yes Musescore does have all the accidentals. But it does NOT play them automatically. It only plays the flat & sharp.
Anyway the software allows you to adjust the pitch of each note.
And since the software is opensource, there are a lot of plugins available.
I use for example 'Quarter Tone Playback" made by Gilbert Yamine, a Lebanese qanun player living now in Germany.
(see the screenshots).
I remind you it is free. So easy to evaluate.
Robert
al-Halabi - 4-17-2018 at 07:44 AM
Microber, thank you very much for this information. I will try the program. The online manual should be helpful in getting oriented to the way it
works.bugaga - 4-20-2018 at 11:38 AM
I am also using Musescore for microtonal notation (Turkish, Arab, Persian) for quite a while already and was satisfied by many features and
improvements. The plugin Microber was mentioning kept crashing for me. Is there a new version that works? I was using a workaround, for example
marking an "E" choosing to mark all Es and then set the intonation for all of them. Microber - 4-20-2018 at 12:53 PM
Interresting !
How do you proceed to mark all the Es ?joseph - 4-20-2018 at 04:53 PM
Hello Jack and Everyone,
You might be interested in also checking out LilyPond.
I wrote my oud book which I recently announced on this forum, using LilyPond and Latex, and you can check out the previews of the output in the links
in my announcement post, to see what the results look like.
I wrote the chapter on Arabic music for them many years ago, but I haven't used the features of additional accidentals in my book. Since then, someone
has added a chapter on Turkish music and it looks like Lilypond can handle the features you want.
LilyPond is quite powerful and flexible to produce output that matches printed music, but there is some learning curve as it is based on typing
notations and instructions in a text file that gets transformed into music. There is no graphical interface, but the documentation is excellent. It is
powerful enough to produce a complete book with notation, but it is only suitable if you are comfortable working with command line interfaces and
programming concepts. If you just want to produce few pages and controlling the exact look of the output is not important then a GUI might be more
suitable.
I haven't use MuseScore so I am not sure how LilyPond and MuseScore compare in terms of features and output quality. bugaga - 4-20-2018 at 11:36 PM
Interresting !
How do you proceed to mark all the Es ?
I mark an E, right click -> select -> more... -> same note name: E
When I change the pitch now, this is true for all the Es. If I have different kind of Es in one piece, it is bad luck and I have to change some of
them by hand, but still it became less work than before.
This feature exists for a year or so and I'm very happy about it.Microber - 4-21-2018 at 12:00 AM
Thanks Bugaga. Nice feature. I didn't know it.
If you have a problem with Quarter tone playback, you could contact Gilbert Yamine. He probably could help you.
