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The ability to substitute short solfege names for noteheads would be invaluable for me(and potentially of great use in music education). At present, an approximation can be achieved through Staff Attributes | Note Shapes, but these can only be assigned diatonically, not to each of the 12 chromatic notes. 

 

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Thanks for your helpful response. I'll check when I can. This would be  a partial solution, but falls short of adequate for anything beyond beginning ear training.

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Is playback important to you?

My recollection of Kodaly flash cards were of headless rhythm stems (for clapping) with solfege syllables under them as lyrics where wanted.

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Are these in Finale? I am aware of the Kodaly system.

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Thanks. What I'm interested in is transforming melodic lines, which may well include chromatic inflections, into solfege noteheads using the mapping provided via Note Shapes from scale step to font symbol. Willing to ditch the exact rhythmic values in favor of the temporal infomation provided by spacing, since things could get awfully congested on that there notehead. Years ago I was able to make my own font(in the clumsiest and dumbest way imaginable, I'm sure) and attach the solfege  as "noteheads". though again, this was only 7/12 of the pitch space. But as may be obvious, I need to think it through more carefully. And using lyrics may be the way to go , but I would lose the correlation of pitch to the "y-direction" or height on the staff. 

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… Years ago I was able to make my own font (in the clumsiest and dumbest way imaginable, I'm sure) and attach the solfege  as "noteheads". though again, this was only 7/12 of the pitch space …

 

If I understand you correctly, by “7/12 of the pitch space” you mean that the traditional diatonic (7 diatonic steps) notation is less well suited for solfege, since the visual notation does not show the precise chromatic (12 chromatic steps) size of the intervals (all diatonic scale steps have the same visual, vertical, size, but some steps are semi-tones),

right?

You are looking for a chromatic solfege notation where the interval size, measured in chromatic semitones, is shown visually correctly?

 

It can be done in Finale, but I am not sure what layout you need.

It might help if you could attach a graphic showing the desired layout.

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Mayo,

I fear what you want is well beyond my ability to understand. I would suggest that you draw it out on a piece of paper, and show us your vision. 

 

But ask yourself a question: How is this any easier than just learning to read music?

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Neither topologist nor Topo Gigio   can understand a rat's nest, and that's what my mind is at the moment about this. It's not as difficult an idea as I'm making it seem. You are right to request a picture. 

As to your second question, I have not asked it of myself because the idea is not to assist in music reading but in what has been called structural hearing. What I want to do is foster a quick association between the solfege (a visual interpretation of the note's position in the hierarchy of the key, to put it rather ponderously)and the aural image.(Yes., playback is important for this) After well over 50 years of immersion in music and an unpleasantly long stint in piano teaching, I am sure this is a major "sleeper", something whose neglect in education is quite sore. 

 

 

 

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And thank you Mr. Thomsen. I'll try to come up with something coherent if I can get the time. Probably need to do more research, maybe  upgrade, too..

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I'm certainly not going to argue the concept, since I don't understand it. But I don't see the difference between "a quick association between the solfege and the aural image," and seeing F-C on the staff, and knowing it's a 4th, and it sounds like "here comes (the bride.)"

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