Tiny Example

Tiny Example #

To be concrete, suppose we want to support the following playing techniques:

  • Normal and tenuto lengths
  • Normal and legato note connections
  • Normal and pizzicato technique

Here’s a complete table of sensible combinations, eight in all:

LengthLegatoTechniqueonoffvoletc
NormalNormalNormal
NormalNormalPizz
NormalLegatoNormal
NormalLegatoPizz
TenutoNormalNormal
TenutoNormalPizz
TenutoLegatoNormal
TenutoLegatoPizz

What remains is to fill in the blanks: specify on events, off events, etc., for each combination. The Fugalist expression-map tool is designed to do exactly that.