Lookup Tables

Please, find here tables with accidentals and note names for several tone systems (EDO and JI), which are supported by Ekmelily and partly by ekmelib. The tables are also available as ODS.

Or create the desired lookup tables with LilyPond using table.ly in Ekmelily.

Accidentals

The accidentals are specified for each in Ekmelily predefined notation style. Some of them, in particular, combinations of several characters, are defined only for the sake of completeness. The tables use the Ekmelos font.

Click on an accidental to copy the glyph(s), its SMuFL code point(s), or its glyph name(s) to clipboard.

Note names

The note names (pitch names), inclusive alias names, are specified for each in Ekmelily defined language. They are based on the names for semi- and quarter-tones in LilyPond.

Click on a name to copy it, or one of its alias names, to clipboard.

Enharmonically equivalent degrees

In many notation styles like arrow, rhm, and sims, the one-quarter-tone and three-quarters-tone degrees have two distinct, enharmonically equivalent accidentals. Therefore, Ekmelily defines two note name suffixes each, e.g. qs and saqf (English) or ih and iseh (German). However, LilyPond does not support different accidentals for the same alteration. As a workaround, the combined note names like csaqf or ciseh have slightly differing alterations and therefore cause inaccurate MIDI output.

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Sources

  • SMuFL – Standard Music Font Layout. Version 1.4, (A specification for music symbols, introduced by Daniel Spreadbury and developed by the W3C Music Notation Community Group, www.smufl.org, github.com/w3c/smufl).
  • LilyPond – the GNU music typesetter. Version 2.22 (File "define-note-names.scm" Copyright (C) 2010--2020 Valentin Villenave et al., lilypond.org).
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