Dizi Etudes
Generate dizi etudes.
Background
As a western flute player, I'm used to practicing certain intervals and fingering changes through scales and etudes. Chinese music and the dizi use different fingerings and intervals in different frequencies. This project aims to generate a corpus of exercises to practice that make sense if playing traditional Chinese music so that, at least through note choice and fingering, the player is used to the correct intervals.
I can definitely use input from anyone trained in traditional Chinese music. I'm currently going off of what I have learned in readings.
Basic breakdown of project
- Compile lists related to
- most frequent notes
- most frequent intervals
in as much Chinese music as possible. These lists can be compiled through frequency analysis, image analysis of jianpu notation, or manual transcription of jianpu notation.
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Generate patterns using lilypond and (python? latex? javascript). TBD
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Modify the patterns to use more appropriate note lengths
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Generate, print or otherwise display the results for use in practice sessions
How to get involved
Reach out to Katarina Hoeger to get involved.
Useful Readings / Links / Resources
Readings
Jianpu notation
Lilypond
- Lilypond General music notation software that I can use to generate music
- Jianpu in Lilypond python program by silas s brown that can be used for music notation in jianpu, uses lilypond to typeset
Progress Log
10/17
Done
- laid out bones of project
- found notation software
- lilypond is working
To Do Next
- try jianpu in lilypond
- Investigate resources I've been told about
- Aiva
- Pentatonic Scale Use
- A set of chinese music in a private shared repo