Dear Andrew I suspect that either your composer is Wrong, or the time signature of the two last staves is not 4/4 but somekink of irrational timesignature. Here is a compiled and correct layout following your specifications of polytempi done with lilypond. It is really possible and cool. I use it for my compositions where polytempi and polymetrics are current. It even plays the correct timing in midi ! The trick is to use scaleDurations based on a tempo of 60 but you can tweak it as you like.
the example of stave 2 and 4 of your example here:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
"one"=
{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% VOICE : 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MESURE : 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\scaleDurations 15/13 {
\time 3/4
\set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(3 . 4)
\mark \markup {\left-column {{\line { \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note
#"4" #1 " = 52 "}} \tiny "1"}}
a2.~
|
}
\once \set Staff.whichBar = "|"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MESURE : 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\scaleDurations 15/13 {
\time 3/4
\set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(3 . 4)
a2~ a8.~ a16
|
}
\once \set Staff.whichBar = "|"
}
"two"=
{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% VOICE : 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MESURE : 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\scaleDurations 20/21 {
\time 4/4
\set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(4 . 4)
\mark \markup {\left-column {{\line { \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note
#"4" #1 " = 63 "}} \tiny "1"}}
\clef F
\tuplet 5/4 {f,8 [bih,8.~ ]}
\tuplet 7/8 {bih,16 [g,32~ g,8~ ]}
g,4~
\tuplet 5/4 {g,8.~ [ <g, eisih'>8 ] }
|
}
\once \set Staff.whichBar = "|"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MESURE : 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\scaleDurations 20/21 {
\time 4/4
\set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(4 . 4)
a,16. c,8~
c,4~
\tuplet 3/2 {c,4~ <c, aeh,>8~}
<c, aeh,>4
|
}
\once \set Staff.whichBar = "|"
}
\score {
{
<<
\new ChoirStaff
<<
\new Staff {
\one
}
\new Staff {
\two
}
>>
>>
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Sorry for this non brief example...
(attached what i beleive the correct timing is)
Best
K
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> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 21:56:03 +1100
> From: Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com>
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> Subject: Polymeter help
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> Let me say at the outset that I suspect this may be impossible. I am
> thoroughly deadlocked at a page of the quartet of the composer I am
> setting. This section is in polymeter, but the composer has scaled the
> durations of the viola and cello by an unknown factor, and also and insists
> on the end of the staves not being at the some point. I am unable to see
> how to implement the page breaks in lilypond.
>
> I can't provide a MWE because I simply cant get anything useful to work.
> Please refer to the attached image. The upper tow parts are supposed to be
> at tempo 52. and the lower at 63, but lilypond of course does not lay out
> by tempo.
>
> The poymeter examples in the NR are great, but it's the end of system
> unevenness at the right hand side of the page I have no idea how to deal
> with.
>
> Andrew
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