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Chinese notation #614

Closed muparkkra closed 7 months ago

muparkkra commented 5 years ago

I wonder if there is any interest in Chinese "123" notation? I am studying Erhu (Chinese Violin) and I find a big Chinese community that plays only Chinese notation which is only published in China. There is no typesetting system (that I can find) in the US for handling this material. I am interested in writing some books to introduce the huge Chinese repetoire to the western audience, but have not found a way to handle the notational issues.

The system basically uses the western numbers 1,2,...7 as corresponding to do,re...ti. Sharps and flats are prepended to the numbers as needed. A dot above means an octave up, a dot below means octave down, eight notes are underlined, 16th are double underlined, etc. The same notation as western music is used for trills, dynamics, time signature, etc.

I think that a flexible typesetter could simply drop the staves, replace the notes with numbers and modify the beam/flag to use underlining instead.

muparkkra commented 7 months ago

This is a completely different kind of notation, which we've never seen, so we can't see that we'd ever do it.