Re: traditional Japanese music notation

Hi,

This is really Daniel Spreadbury's department, but I'd like to add my 
two cents. :-)

https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/index.html
seems to be self-contradictory.
§1 restricts SMuFL to "conventional music notation":
> SMuFL is a specification that provides a standard way of mapping the 
> thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation 
> into the Private Use Area in Unicode’s Basic Multilingual Plane for a 
> single (format-independent) font.
while §2 says SMuFL should be "for the benefit of all users of music 
notation software":
> The goal of SMuFL is to establish a new standard glyph mapping for 
> musical symbols that is optimised for modern font formats and that can 
> be adopted by a variety of software vendors and font designers, for 
> the benefit of all users of music notation software.

IMHO §1 needs revising. There /should/ be a section in SMuFL dedicated 
to Asian music symbols.
However, deciding how to organize that section needs input from the 
domain experts. Perhaps Razvan Beuran could help there. For example, do 
/all/ Asian music notations have symbols with similar meanings? How 
could they be meaningfully categorized? Do the different Asian notations 
need sections of their own or not?

All the best,
James Ingram


Am 31.10.2016 um 15:18 schrieb Razvan BEURAN:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Razvan Beuran and I am developing software that 
> automatically converts music from Western notation to traditional 
> Japanese notation (such as shakuhachi, koto, shamisen):
>     https://sites.google.com/site/razvanswebsite/software
>
> For this purpose I have found the need to create some fonts for 
> representing the traditional Japanese notations, and I am midway in 
> achieving this goal.
>
> Recently I have found out about the SMuFL project. When checking the 
> current version I discovered that this kind of notation is not covered 
> at all, however it would be very useful for me and the other people 
> involved in this kind of activities (not many, I admit).
>
> I am contacting you to see if there is interest in extending SMuFL to 
> cover traditional Japanese music notation. I am knowledgeable 
> especially about the Tozan shakuhachi notation, which could be a good 
> start. Moreover, the Tozan school publishes an official manual (in 
> Japanese) which could serve as reference.
>
> In case such an interest exists, I would like to know how I should 
> proceed, since I have not much experience with standardization in 
> general and SMuFL in particular.
>
> I am looking forward to your reply.
>
> Best wishes,
> Razvan Beuran
>
>
>


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