string instruments - What gives a Chinese Pipa its unique timbre in ...
May 26, 2021 · 5 Similar to this broader question How do East Asian instruments (Shamisen, pipa, etc.) get their unique sound? Though they a similar in many ways a guitar and a pipa sound very different. …
How to adjust the vertical placement of markups in Lilypond
Nov 8, 2020 · Using Lilypond 2.20 on Ubuntu 20.04. This code: ... %% fingering symbols fngaLong = \finger\markup{\box{\pad-markup #0.2 \override #'(font-name . "pipa") \fontsize #7 "a-"}} ...
What's the name of the form of the song "12 Days of Christmas"?
Dec 25, 2024 · The words accumulate in the obvious way, but the music only does so if you treat the first four days separately from the rest. To describe all the music together, I was using A = the music …
technique - Is it possible to get a mandolin style tremolo on an ...
Jun 10, 2021 · Somewhat inspired by my other question about the pipa I believe the Mandolin's unique sound comes from the tremolo made possible by double coursing. Is it possible in principle to get a …
Newest 'mandolin' Questions - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Feb 17, 2024 · Somewhat inspired by my other question about the pipa I believe the Mandolin's unique sound comes from the tremolo made possible by double coursing. Is it possible in principle to get a …
terminology - What exactly constitutes Unison? - Music: Practice ...
Oct 15, 2024 · Following on from a recent question regarding 'unison', my research comes up with some diverse explanations. 'Perfect Unison' itself is two or more instruments playing the same pitch, when …
Music notation software for JianPu and erhu notation
Feb 11, 2015 · My wife's band, which features the erhu, uses music notation like the page shown below. We want to take hand-written scanned/faxed from stained napkins with bad handwriting and two-side …
What is the difference between portamento and glissando?
Mar 13, 2022 · Although the two terms are often conflated, and although there are plenty of situations where the difference isn't noticeable, the intended difference is that portamento is a relatively quick …
composition - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Feb 20, 2024 · I am not a composer, and I am sorry if the question seems overly daft or obvious. When a composer (I have in mind someone working on a DAW) is composing their own song, why don't …
Choosing appropriate accompaniment chords for a waltz melody
Jul 6, 2019 · Thank you @Michael Curtis! So I would start by writing some chords for couple of bars that are based on the theory, then I would develop the melody adding the passing tones and such. Finally …