<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Note names in other languages - GNU LilyPond Notation Reference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="GNU LilyPond Notation Reference"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.11"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Writing-pitches.html#Writing-pitches" title="Writing pitches"> <link rel="prev" href="Accidentals.html#Accidentals" title="Accidentals"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999--2007 by the authors Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. 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To use them, include the language-specific init file. For example, to use English notes names, add <code>\include "english.ly"</code><!-- /@w --> to the top of the input file. The available language files and the note names they define are: <pre class="smallexample"> <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><th valign="top">Language </th><th valign="top">Note names </th><th valign="top">sharp </th><th valign="top">flat </th><th valign="top">double sharp </th><th valign="top">double flat <br></th></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">nederlands.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a bes b </td><td valign="top">-is </td><td valign="top">-es </td><td valign="top">-isis </td><td valign="top">-eses <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">arabic.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-d </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-dd </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">catalan.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-d/-s </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-dd/-ss </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">deutsch.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a b h </td><td valign="top">-is </td><td valign="top">-es </td><td valign="top">-isis </td><td valign="top">-eses <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">english.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a bf b </td><td valign="top">-s/-sharp </td><td valign="top">-f/-flat </td><td valign="top">-ss/-x/-sharpsharp </td><td valign="top">-ff/-flatflat <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">espanol.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-s </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-ss </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">italiano.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-d </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-dd </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">norsk.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a b h </td><td valign="top">-iss/-is </td><td valign="top">-ess/-es </td><td valign="top">-ississ/-isis </td><td valign="top">-essess/-eses <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">portugues.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-s </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-ss </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">suomi.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a b h </td><td valign="top">-is </td><td valign="top">-es </td><td valign="top">-isis </td><td valign="top">-eses <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">svenska.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a b h </td><td valign="top">-iss </td><td valign="top">-ess </td><td valign="top">-ississ </td><td valign="top">-essess <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">vlaams.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-k </td><td valign="top">-b </td><td valign="top">-kk </td><td valign="top">-bb <br></td></tr></table> </pre> <p>In Dutch, <code>aes</code> is contracted to <code>as</code>, but both forms are accepted in LilyPond. Similarly, both <code>es</code> and <code>ees</code> are accepted. This also applies to <code>aeses</code> / <code>ases</code> and <code>eeses</code> / <code>eses</code>. Sometimes only these contracted names are defined in the corresponding language files. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> a2 as e es a ases e eses </pre> <p> <a href="../9d/lily-3602a67c.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../9d/lily-3602a67c.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p><a name="index-microtones-77"></a><a name="index-semi_002dsharp-78"></a><a name="index-semi_002dflat-79"></a><a name="index-sesqui_002dsharp-80"></a><a name="index-sesqui_002dflat-81"></a> Some music uses microtones whose alterations are fractions of a ‘normal’ sharp or flat. The note names for quarter-tones defined in the various language files are listed in the following table. Here the prefixes <var>semi-</var> and <var>sesqui-</var> mean ‘half’ and ‘one and a half’, respectively. For the other languages, no special names have been defined yet. <pre class="smallexample"> <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><th valign="top">Language </th><th valign="top">Note names </th><th valign="top">semi-sharp </th><th valign="top">semi-flat </th><th valign="top">sesqui-sharp </th><th valign="top">sesqui-flat <br></th></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">nederlands.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a bes b </td><td valign="top">-ih </td><td valign="top">-eh </td><td valign="top">-isih </td><td valign="top">-eseh <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">arabic.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-sd </td><td valign="top">-sb </td><td valign="top">-dsd </td><td valign="top">-bsb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">deutsch.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a b h </td><td valign="top">-ih </td><td valign="top">-eh </td><td valign="top">-isih </td><td valign="top">-eseh <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">english.ly </td><td valign="top">c d e f g a bf b </td><td valign="top">-qs </td><td valign="top">-qf </td><td valign="top">-tqs </td><td valign="top">-tqf <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">italiano.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-sd </td><td valign="top">-sb </td><td valign="top">-dsd </td><td valign="top">-bsb <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top">portugues.ly </td><td valign="top">do re mi fa sol la sib si </td><td valign="top">-sqt </td><td valign="top">-bqt </td><td valign="top">-stqt </td><td valign="top">-btqt <br></td></tr></table> </pre> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">See also</h5> <p class="indent"> <p>Music Glossary: <a name="index-Pitch-names-82"></a><a href="../music-glossary/Pitch-names.html#Pitch-names">Pitch names</a>. <p>Snippets: <a href="../../../input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Pitches.html#Pitches">Pitches</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Accidentals.html#Accidentals">Accidentals</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Writing-pitches.html#Writing-pitches">Writing pitches</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> <P> Other languages: <a href="Note-names-in-other-languages.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="Note-names-in-other-languages.es.html">español</a>, <a href="Note-names-in-other-languages.de.html">deutsch</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>