engraving Piano and String Quartet

lab briefpublish an edition of Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet engraved with lilypond.
keywords
  • graphic design
  • music notation
  • typesetting
  • lilypond
conductedJL 2019/04/01–2019/08/24

purpose

Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet existed as facsimiles of the original hand-written score. As an exercise in the music engraving programming language Lilypond, and to facilitate performance, the composition was engraved in Lilypond as its first setting.

The score was adapted for presentation with recording in a YouTube video.

method

Notation is input to match to the original hand-written score, with Lilypond enforcing a standard spacing and consistent rendering.

instrumentation

results

The Lilypond engraving is available on sourcehut.

references

video

YouTube

publication

sourcehut.