'Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case'

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Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in ... - Stephen Martin, 08 Feb 01:14PM
     Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Kai Struck, 08 Feb 02:08PM
         Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Stephen Martin, 08 Feb 09:31PM
             Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Kai Struck, 09 Feb 05:09PM
                 Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Stephen Martin, 09 Feb 09:13PM

Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case
Posted by Stephen Martin - 08 Feb 01:14PM

Hi to the forum,

I'm hoping that someone will be able to make, or adjust the plug in that puts note names in note heads, at absolute pitch names, to be able to input the solfa names of notes d,r,m etc [and of course solfa are in lower case letters for use in class music], into the note heads.

Thanks if anyone is able to maybe give this a go.

best,



Stephen John Martin
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Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case
Posted by Kai Struck - 08 Feb 02:08PM
I created a set of solfege noteheads in form of a Housestyle that you can import and then run the add note names plugin.

But they are all capital letters. :-(

Here you can find a summary of the solfege possibilities by me and others:
http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/chat/chat.pl?com=thread&start=677130&groupid=3&&guest=1

It was quite a work to create these in Inkscape and if I had have the knowledge of today I would have constructed them in a different way to make it easier to create new ones, eg. with lower case letters. But for future: What exactly should the solfege names look like?
d or do etc.?

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Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case
Posted by Stephen Martin - 08 Feb 09:31PM
Hi Kai,

thanks for your reply. With solfege, the reason that the letters are lower case is so that they will not be confused with the absolute pitch letter names of notes. Apparently the convention is that Letter names of notes are always in capital letters, but solfege are in lower case and I believe this is so that musicians don't confuse any of the solfege names of d [doh], and f [fah] with letter names of D and F when reading and singing in solfege. I'm not sure if that is the reason, but that is possibly what it is. With using solfege, the shortened forms of the names are just the first letter of each solfege name, hence doh = d, re - r, mi - m etc.

I know that when you flatten or sharpen a degree, the note name changes so for example, f or fah becomes fis, ti or t, when flattened becomes ta.

I suppose the way to get around that is to just leave the solfege letters as they are in the note heads, if their are flats or sharps in the key signature, and the reader has to remember that the key signature means you will sing those notes with the correct changed vowel sound after the changed note - so, they just have to remember that all f are fis if there is a G major/E minor key signature etc., so you wouldn't worry about making changes to any solfa by adding an extra letter inside the note head.

I hope that info is helpful.

thanks and best,

Steve
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Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case
Posted by Kai Struck - 09 Feb 05:09PM
Hi,

I created a lower case version. Just redownload from the post at the link above.

I hope you can work with it. Taste differs :-)

Cheers
Kai

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Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in note heads in lower case
Posted by Stephen Martin - 09 Feb 09:13PM
Hi Kai,

wow -absolutely fantastic! thank you so much for this. I'm just off for school, so I'll try this out tonight when I get home from school with Sibelius.

I'll let you know how I go.

thanks heaps,

Steve :-) :-)

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Request for a plug in that puts solfa names in ... - Stephen Martin, 08 Feb 01:14PM
     Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Kai Struck, 08 Feb 02:08PM
         Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Stephen Martin, 08 Feb 09:31PM
             Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Kai Struck, 09 Feb 05:09PM
                 Re: Request for a plug in that puts solfa names... - Stephen Martin, 09 Feb 09:13PM