Recently I have shifted my focus from TwinNote to a new (or rather newly revised) alternative notation system called Clairnote. TwinNote will not be going away but I expect that I will put my future efforts into Clairnote rather than TwinNote. Continue reading
Fine-Tuning Note Head Styles
Maybe it’s something in the fall weather that makes a body want to refine note head shapes… About this time last year I created a new, more rounded TwinNote note head style, and recently I designed a new version that improves upon the previous style in subtle ways. Continue reading
Brown Cows Eat Grass, Ducks Fly Away
If you have ever learned to read traditional music notation, you probably remember the mnemonic devices you used to learn the lines and spaces of the staff. Something like “Every Good Boy Does Fine” for the lines of the treble clef, or “All Cows Eat Grass” for the spaces of the bass clef. The first letter of each word tells you the order of the notes on the staff. Here are some similar mnemonic devices to help with learning the TwinNote staff. Continue reading
John Barleycorn and The Blue Danube Waltz in TwinNote
As the summer begins to wind down it’s time for some new music in TwinNote. Two new works have just landed on the sheet music page: Johann Strauss Jr.’s famous Blue Danube Waltz for piano (well, just the main theme), and the old English folk song John Barleycorn, arranged for piano and voice. Enjoy these as the sun sinks lower and lower over the horizon. Continue reading
Whole Notes, Accidental Signs, Key Signatures (LilyPond Improvements)
There are some new improvements to the rendering of TwinNote
by LilyPond, thanks to a new revision of the
twinnote-scripts.ly file. These include wider
note heads for whole notes, better spacing and handling of
accidental signs, and improved code for key signatures.
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SVG Images, Rests, LilyPond 2.17
I recently re-created most of the images on the site so that they have TwinNote’s newer “rounded-triangle” note heads. This lead me to improve the positioning of rests (when using LilyPond to create sheet music in TwinNote), and upgrade to LilyPond 2.17 as well. Continue reading
Greensleeves Sheet Music in TwinNote
Just a quick post to say that the traditional English melody “Greensleeves,” arranged for four-part vocal harmony, is now available in TwinNote from the Sheet Music page. Like most of the other TwinNote sheet music on that page, this piece was created with LilyPond from a public domain LilyPond source file from the Mutopia Project. Continue reading