Intervallic notation
I am writing a piece of simple counterpoint (Species 1) - is there a way of notating the intervals (-/+2, -/+3, p4, p5, p8 etc ) between each pair of notes? Perhaps generating these automatically?
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Use staff text and enter the interval manually. You'll probably need to adjust the text location with the Offset values on the Properties tab.
Automatically, no. Might be something that you could write a plug-in for?
In reply to Use staff text and enter the… by TheHutch
Me? Write a plug-in? I think you guys on this forum often think that the likes of us music writers are also techy - not so unfortunately! Thanks anyway.
In reply to Me? Write a plug-in? I think… by Ali Wood
I don't currently know how to write plug-ins; I'm hoping to learn over the next few months. It's no harder to write plug-ins (or do any other kind of programming) than it is to write music.
You need to remember that "you guys on this forum" are MuS users just like you. If you keep hanging around here, you'll eventually be one of "you guys on this forum". :-) You'll log in one day and someone will have just posted a question that you know the answer to. And you will. And thus you will join "you guys on this forum". :-D
In reply to I don't currently know how… by TheHutch
I know what you're saying but I respectfully disagree. The population at large falls into 4 groups (A: musical and techie B: musical but not techie C: not musical, but techie D: not musical and techie) Yes? Of course with varying degrees of technical assurance and musicality. I've been on this forum for ages but I'm afraid I'm one of those people with a bit of musicality but no technical nous. A "plug in" involves knowing some computer language, right? :-D ;).
In reply to I respectfully disagree. The… by Ali Wood
I agree with you as to the four groups, but in my experience of teaching the elderly, I've found that the first three groups overlap almost completely ... if the individual is willing to try. The skills required to write music notation and to write computer programs are very similar (not identical, no, but similar).
If you REALLY want to do the original task (calculating intervals, I believe, and displaying them?), it's worth it to try. If you don't want to try, that is evidence that you don't have a great enough desire for the task to be automated. This is perfectly understandable: it's quite easy to do so manually.
But, in my experience, anyone can learn to program ... just as anyone can learn to write music. (At least "notate" music, not necessarily "compose". THAT's a radically different skill.)