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+ | == Eine Alpensinfonie == | ||
+ | The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score Score extension] handles snippets of music notation using [http://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/index.html Lilypond]. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of ''Eine Alpensinfonie'' by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for: | ||
+ | |||
+ | <score> | ||
+ | \relative c, { | ||
+ | \time 4/4 | ||
+ | \clef bass | ||
+ | \key c \major | ||
+ | |||
+ | r2 r4\ff g\tenuto | ||
+ | c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto | ||
+ | g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto | ||
+ | c1 | ||
+ | e2~ e4.. b16 | ||
+ | a1 | ||
+ | g1 | ||
+ | c8 r8 r4 r2 | ||
+ | \bar "|." | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | </score> | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can hear (but not see!) it being played in this performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. I mean, I love how they at least bothered to point the camera at the trombone section, but the only time the 4th trombonist is playing his contrabass (you can see his bass sitting on its stand), and he's not in shot: | ||
+ | <youtube>xK7z2NhUrsQ</youtube> |
Latest revision as of 02:47, 30 November 2022
Woot! Somewhere to stash random notes and howtos. If the contents of this wiki seem a bit terse, it's because the intended audience is primarily myself, in the future, in a hurry and frazzled because something has broken or changed, and I can't remember how I set things up.
- How to use SSH Keys
- Ubuntu notes, Windows tweaks, Android things
- Dealing with Bluray content in Linux
- Learn PostgreSQL in 10 minutes
- Installing Django/Apache
- Pimp my IRiver!
- Telescope mirror fabrication idea
Sci-Fi Night, IRC Quotes, FAIL
Eine Alpensinfonie
The Score extension handles snippets of music notation using Lilypond. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for:
You can hear (but not see!) it being played in this performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. I mean, I love how they at least bothered to point the camera at the trombone section, but the only time the 4th trombonist is playing his contrabass (you can see his bass sitting on its stand), and he's not in shot: