Kite's color notation: Difference between revisions

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L and s never appear on the staff. Tripled colors are written as y3 not y3 or yyy. In MuseScore, color accidentals are made by adding fingerings to the notes, then editing the fingering text. A fingering can be copied from one note and pasted to another note. The font used here is Arial Black.

This 10-page score uses the free open-source font Petaluma Script. The letters are 9pt, except that a "z" between two staff lines is 8pt. [[File:Evening Rondo colors.pdf]]

=== Color signatures ===

Staff notation can optionally include a color signature written above the staff. This makes color notation more similar to Johnston notation.

[[File:Notation example 2.png|786x786px]]

Color notation can optionally be made more similar to Sagittal notation by including two more accidentals, '''p''' and '''q''' (long forms '''po''' and '''qu''' = "coo"), to indicate raising/lowering by a pythagorean comma. (~~See [http~~:~~//tallkite~~.~~com/misc_files/Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors~~.~~png Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors~~.~~png]~~.) Adding po raises the degree by one. ~~For example, adding po to yo~~ F# ~~makes yopo~~ Gb. ~~Changing~~ the degree ~~allows trills to always be written as a 2nd, less cluttered~~.~~[[File:Notation example 5a~~.~~png|992x992px]]~~

=== Po and qu ===

Color notation can optionally be made more similar to Sagittal notation (see [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png]) by including two more accidentals, '''p''' and '''q''' (long forms '''po''' and '''qu''' = "coo"), to indicate raising/lowering by a pythagorean comma. (Mnemonics: p stands for pythagorean, and q is the mirror image of p.) Why would one want to do that? Because by first subtracting that comma and then adding it on again, one can rename a note.

For example, F# minus a pythagorean comma is Gb. And Gb plus a pythagorean comma is po Gb. Thus an alternate name for F# is po Gb. Adding po raises the degree by one. The new note name is always a 12edo equivalent of the old note name. Adding qu lowers the degree: Gb = qu F#. If one is resolving from Gb to G, one can rename Gb as qF#.

Subtracting po lowers the degree. Thus ruyopo Db = ruyo C#.

L and ~~s never appear on the staff~~. ~~Tripled colors are written as y3 not y3 or yyy~~. ~~In MuseScore,~~ color ~~accidentals are made by adding fingerings to the notes, then editing~~ the ~~fingering text. A fingering can be copied from one note and pasted to another note. The font used here is Arial Black~~.

Po and qu can be used with intervals as well. A ruyo 1sn becomes a ruyopo 2nd. Neither the color nor the magnitude changes.

~~This 10-page score uses~~ the ~~free open-source font Petaluma Script~~. ~~The letters are 9pt, except that a "z" between two staff lines~~ is ~~8pt~~. [[File:~~Evening Rondo colors~~.~~pdf~~]]

One reason to change the degree is for ease of naming chords. See the Hendrix chord in the next section. Another reason is to avoid an awkward unison trill. [[File:Notation example 5a.png|992x992px]]

== Chord names ==

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+L and s never appear on the staff. Tripled colors are written as y3 not y<sup>3</sup> or yyy. In MuseScore, color accidentals are made by adding fingerings to the notes, then editing the fingering text. A fingering can be copied from one note and pasted to another note. The font used here is Arial Black.
+This 10-page score uses the free open-source font Petaluma Script. The letters are 9pt, except that a "z" between two staff lines is 8pt. [[File:Evening Rondo colors.pdf]]
+=== Color signatures ===
 Staff notation can optionally include a color signature written above the staff. This makes color notation more similar to Johnston notation.
 [[File:Notation example 2.png|786x786px]]
-Color notation can optionally be made more similar to Sagittal notation by including two more accidentals, '''p''' and '''q''' (long forms '''po''' and '''qu''' = "coo"), to indicate raising/lowering by a pythagorean comma. (See [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png].) <u>Adding po raises the degree by one</u>. For example, adding po to yo F# makes yopo Gb. Changing the degree allows trills to always be written as a 2nd, less cluttered.[[File:Notation example 5a.png|992x992px]]
+=== Po and qu ===
+Color notation can optionally be made more similar to Sagittal notation (see [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png]) by including two more accidentals, '''p''' and '''q''' (long forms '''po''' and '''qu''' = "coo"), to indicate raising/lowering by a pythagorean comma. (Mnemonics: p stands for pythagorean, and q is the mirror image of p.) Why would one want to do that? Because by first subtracting that comma and then adding it on again, one can rename a note.
+For example, F# minus a pythagorean comma is Gb. And Gb plus a pythagorean comma is po Gb. Thus an alternate name for F# is po Gb. <u>Adding po raises the degree by one</u>. The new note name is always a 12edo equivalent of the old note name. Adding qu lowers the degree: Gb = qu F#. If one is resolving from Gb to G, one can rename Gb as qF#.
+<u>Subtracting po lowers the degree</u>. Thus ruyopo Db = ruyo C#.
-L and s never appear on the staff. Tripled colors are written as y3 not y<sup>3</sup> or yyy. In MuseScore, color accidentals are made by adding fingerings to the notes, then editing the fingering text. A fingering can be copied from one note and pasted to another note. The font used here is Arial Black.
+Po and qu can be used with intervals as well. A ruyo 1sn becomes a ruyopo 2nd. Neither the color nor the magnitude changes.
-This 10-page score uses the free open-source font Petaluma Script. The letters are 9pt, except that a "z" between two staff lines is 8pt. [[File:Evening Rondo colors.pdf]]
+One reason to change the degree is for ease of naming chords. See the Hendrix chord in the next section. Another reason is to avoid an awkward unison trill. [[File:Notation example 5a.png|992x992px]]
 == Chord names ==