https://github.com/jamesbarwell/lilypond-folk-tunes

My collection of traditional folk music, as I play it, in Lilypond format
https://github.com/jamesbarwell/lilypond-folk-tunes

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My collection of traditional folk music, as I play it, in Lilypond format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jamesbarwell/lilypond-folk-tunes
• Owner: JamesBarwell
• Created: 2024-02-24T13:27:49.000Z (9 months ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-21T11:14:47.000Z (24 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-21T16:20:58.677Z (24 days ago)
• Language: LilyPond
• Size: 143 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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lilypond-folk-tunes

---

My collection of traditional folk music, as I play it, in Lilypond format. Music from the British Isles, Ireland and Europe.

Download the [latest PDF tunebook](https://github.com/JamesBarwell/lilypond-folk-tunes/releases/latest/download/book.pdf).

## File organsation and build

Tune sets are in `sets`. Individual tunes are in `tunes`.

Run `make` to create individual pdf files of the sets, tunes and all combined as `book.pdf`.

Run `make clean` to delete all pdfs.

## Conventions and opinions

- Partial lead-in and lead-out bars are incorporated into repeats (voltas) where possible to avoid using alternative 1 and 2 repeat bars

- Ornamentation is sparse unless integral to the tune

- Hornpipes are written 'straight' (un-dotted), because dotted notation is not only an incorrect duration but extremely visually distracting

## Development approach

Lilypond uses a text format so I use my standard text editor to make changes.

There is a program [Frescobaldi](https://frescobaldi.org/) which is a useful rich editor. This is handy for importing ABC files, giving a quick preview and running transformations such as transposition.

## Examples

See the `examples` directory for handy Lilypond code snippets.

## Todo

- Books as standalone files, containing arbitary lists of scores. These could be pulled together by rules such as tag keywords and other metadata, e.g. styles, new tunes

- Contents page for books

- Minimal book output suitable for tablets (paper sizing, remove verbose text)

- Better use of analysis brackets to add contextual information, e.g. repeated transposed segments

- Automatic colouring to aid readability, e.g. intervals, scotch-snaps

- How to best add variations

  * tried using tags, but breaks sets because doesn't seem possible to specify exports

  * try putting all variations at end, and find a way to link to the variation point, either text or something proper (bar number?). Still need to filter out though.

  * tried ossias. They work, but default to below. You'd have to name the main staff to then put them above. Also probably can't filter out of sets.

- Improve the book generation script