The Clairnote Blog

Posts from 2014

Happy First Birthday Clairnote!

One year ago today Clairnote music notation was introduced to the world.  Looking back it's been quite a productive first year (thanks in…

2014-12-07 — By Paul Morris — Untagged

Ledger Lines, Dotted Notes, Beams

Recent work has lead to improved rendering of ledger lines, dotted notes, and beams in Clairnote music notation (by LilyPond). Here's a…

2014-08-22 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

Chords in Clairnote

Have you ever wondered what chords look like in Clairnote? Including the more complex chords used in Jazz music? A new Chords page has been…

Custom Staff Properties

This post is about going beyond global variables.  It is the last entry in a series of posts about recent improvements to the clairnote-code…

2014-05-28 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

Now Accepting All Clefs

This is another post in a series of posts about recent improvements to the clairnote-code.ly clairnote.ly file. This one is about clef…

2014-05-20 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

Staff is the New StaffClairnote

One of the more significant recent changes to the clairnote-code.ly clairnote.ly file is that now when you \include "clairnote.ly" in a…

2014-05-15 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

Repeat Signs

The first image below shows how LilyPond positions the two dots in repeat signs (by default) for a custom four-line staff like Clairnote's…

2014-04-30 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

180 Fiddle Tunes in Clairnote

Saint Patrick's day is a lucky day... to announce a new collection of fiddle tunes in Clairnote, many of them of Irish derivation.  So raise…

More Functional Code

In LilyPond news, now that I have learned something about functional programming, I have been rewriting large swaths of the scheme code in…

2014-02-26 — By Paul Morris — LilyPond

Clairnote Print Handout

This website does a nice job of introducing and promoting Clairnote, but sometimes there's no substitute for print media. So I recently…

2014-02-20 — By Paul Morris — Untagged