Marc Shepherd <oakapp...@gmail.com> writes: > According to the documentation, the default behavior of the MIDI block is > not to “unfold” repeats (other than those that are explicitly \repeat unfold). > If you want repeats unfolded inside of a MIDI block, you have to requote > the music within the MIDI block, nested inside of an \unfoldRepeats block. > > Any idea why that was chosen as the default behavior? When composers write > a repeat, they usually expect it to be performed. I would have thought that > automatically unfolding would be the more logical default.
The MIDI output of LilyPond is mainly intended for "proofhearing", not as a performance; it has been fairly recently only that attempts to take into account articulation marks (which are seminal for a performance) have been added. As such, unfolding repeats makes the material longer without adding more information. -- David Kastrup
