I’ve been holding off making this announcement, but I’m going to go ahead and post it: I am now the musical engraver for the magazines “Soundboard” & “Soundboard Scholar”!<\/p>\n
A few years back I became a member of the Guitar Foundation of America and from that time forward I was thinking about how I<\/strong> could contribute to the GFA. My answer came as a combination of my specific talents and knowledge. Who better to typeset music and musical excerpts than a guy who’s taught rudiments and music technology? Combine that with a deep love of the guitar, aesthetics of scoring, and a complete computer nerd and you’ve got me in a nutshell.<\/p>\n I’ve submitted all the scores for the next issue of Soundboard and am now just doing some work on Soundboard Scholar. How am I doing this typesetting? Open source of course… I’m using Lilypond as the vehicle to typeset. Unlike other notation programs like Finale\/Sibelius it is rules based and it creates the layouts itself (everything right down to the arch of a slur and how far the end points are from noteheads). I’ve spent the last 6 months working on my own ‘house rules’ and creating a cheat sheet for classical guitar. I believe the result to be something truly special.<\/p>\n All this has happened while I quietly launched a new link in this site’s menu called ‘Stella Pulvis’ (Ok so I’m not only a computer\/guitar geek, but also a space guy…. the name is Latin meaning ‘space dust’, from a famous Carl Sagan quote). ‘Stella’ is my freelance typesetting service. I’ve already been very busy with 10+ scores this summer.\u00a0Since Lilypond is open source software and free, I will donate part of any income I make from this endeavor back to the developers of the software as my little thank you to them.<\/p>\n I’ll be posting examples of the notation here soon under the ‘Stella’ link, and I encourage you to take a look when they appear and if you like my \u00a0work and have something you’d like notated, get in touch!<\/p>\n Eugene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been holding off making this announcement, but I’m going to go ahead and post it: I am now the musical engraver for the magazines “Soundboard” & “Soundboard Scholar”! A few years back I became a member of the Guitar Foundation of America and from that time forward I was thinking about how I could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar","category-lilypond","category-music","category-news","category-stella-pulvis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}