In order to compile the current article and its accompanying sound samples, proceed as follows:
Make sure you have installed the following applications:
- pdflatex and biber (preferably a full TeX distro)
- pdfcrop (which is part of a full TeX distro)
- lilypond
- timidity
- ffmpeg
- sox
In addition to that, it is recommended to install the classico package from
CTAN in order to have a non-serif font matching URW Palladio
(https://ctan.org/pkg/classico).
The subfolder ./ly contains various music examples written in LilyPond. Some
examples are supposed to produce a PDF (p-), some should produce a MIDI (m-),
some both (b-), as indicated by their prefix in the file name. In order to
translate these files into scores and music, run the compile-all script that
lies within the same folder, e.g. by calling (from within ./ly):
bash compile-all
After running the script, the ./ly directory should contain various PDF and MIDI files, and, in addition to that, an OGG file for each MIDI file, so that the sound samples can be played on all systems without the need of a MIDI player.
Finally, compile the main.tex in the main directory. It requires the TEX
files inside the ./tikz subfolder, PDFs from ./ly that we created in step 2,
as well as all files inside the main folder (most importantly, the font files
for the Helmholtz–Ellis symbols). As usual, the LaTeX procedure comprises
several steps. We should be fine after running pdflatex once, then biber
once, and then pdflatex twice.