Font Design for Ancient Greek Aulos notation

Dear Members of the Music Notation Community Group,

I hope this enquiry finds you all well.

I write to you from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as a collaborator of
Barnaby Brown (CC'd) from Cambridge University, regarding our search for a
professional font designer for a new set of music notation symbols.

We are looking for someone to help us develop the font for new techniques
that we have been developing for the ancient Greek aulos, the instrument of
Greek tragedy (~400-500 BCE). This font would be standardised and contain
everything that a composer needs to notate different vibrato types and a
timbral transition. These techniques are explained and demonstrated by
Barnaby in the videos below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiH1FxR3Lb0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQrtazhX1A
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Would anyone in this community have advice for how to get the font into a
strong shape, so that composers and researchers of all levels can use it? And
would anyone happen to know of a skilled vector graphic designer or
calligrapher who would be willing to help us in the development of this
font?

We have been experimenting with Glyphr but are not too familiar with that
world. How glyphs are assigned lie outside our current skill-set: it would
be great to assign the fully-developed set of glyphs to an unassigned
range, so they could be included in future releases of fonts like Bravura.

Complex techniques, namely accelerating/decelerating vibrato and
increasing/decreasing presence will require a professional vector graphic
designer, or calligrapher, to ensure that the different vibrato symbols are
clearly part of one family.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,

Austin

Received on Thursday, 26 November 2020 10:04:15 UTC