Lilypond 2.24 was finally released after several years in beta. This update includes a stricter way of representing repeats with alternatives which changes the look of the rendered music a bit. All the scores on https://github.com/svenax/bagpipemusic have been updated and reformatted accordingly.
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All sheetmusic updated again
I have finally switched from my custom bagpipe.ly to the one included in the Lilypond distribution. This meant moving some stuff from bagpipe_new.ly to bagpipe_extra.ly in https://github.com/svenax/bagpipemusic. It didn’t really affect any of the tunes in the archive but I regenerated all the scores anyways to be sure everything worked as intended.
I think this is a good change since it will keep my scores from diverging too much from the standard notation. It may also work as an incentive to send updates to the Lilypond project more often.
All sheetmusic updated
All sheetmusic PDFs have been rebuilt (again) using slightly bolder beams and stems. It is a subtle change, but I think it looks better this way.
All of the sheet music regenerated
Looks like there are people that finally have looked at my bagpipe mode in the Lilypond distribution. Unfortunately, the reason they did this was to inform me that I was wrong about how to express a lot of complex grace notes. I have regenerated all my sheet music with the new definitions, just to check that everything else still works. In the process I also fixed a few other errors. Enjoy!
Please notify me if you find any errors in the sheet music. It has been proofread, but mistakes are bound to sneak in anyways. The best way to do this is to open an issue at the Github repository, or even better, to submit a pull request.
The sheet music archive is live again
One of the interesting features of my old web site was the sheet music archive, where all my bagpipe music was available and searchable in a number of ways. This was something I had programmed myself using the Drupal API to get it to display. It took me a while to get the same functionality going in WordPress. The plugin API is completely different – no surprise there. I took the opportunity to change my code to the better. I might publish this plugin on Github later so you all can admire it.
Anyways, here is the sheet music archive in all it’s glory. Enjoy!
Glenfiddich Piping Championships 2012
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Myself, Mats, Marie, and Magnus T. went to the Glenfiddich Piping Championships in Blair Atholl again this year. A full day of great piping, a night of partying with the competitors, followed by half a day of fiddle competitions. Fantastic … Continue reading