Hi, here's something that i find very inconvenient to express in Lily syntax. I'm not sure about proper name for this, so just look at the attachment.
As far as i know, to achieve this notation with LilyPond, i have to write this:
\new Staff <<
\mergeDifferentlyDottedOn
\new Voice { \voiceOne f'16 g' a' b' }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo f'4 }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo s16 g'8. }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo s8 a'8 }
>>
In my opinion this is very inconvenient and takes up way too much space.
Maybe there is a better way of writing this which i missed?
Notice that this
\new Staff <<
\mergeDifferentlyDottedOn
\new Voice { \voiceOne f'16 g' a' b' }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo f'4*1/4 g'8.*1/3 a'8*1/2 }
>>
doesn't do what i need, since it will produce wrong midi; also, it's
still quite long.
I'd like to write this in a more compact way. What do you propose?
My idea of what the syntax for this *might* look like (read: here's
what i'd find intuitive as a user) would be to use tilde with a number
(disclaimer: i don't imply any technical/internal association with The
Tie. It's just visual similarity which i find appropriate for
concepts that seem related, at least to me).
So, maybe something like this:
{ f'16~4 g'16~8. a'16~8 b'16 }
could be used to express the musical meaning of this:
"there's an f note that lasts for a quarter note, but rhythmically
it's just a 16th, then there's g "sixteenth" note that lasts for a
dotted eight, then a note which lasts for an eight and finally
sixteenth b".
Again, i have no idea whether it is technically feasible to have a
syntax like that. It's just that i would find this - or something
similar - intuitive.
What's your opinion? How would you do this? Maybe there's no need
for new syntax constructs?
cheers,
Janek
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