Hi everyone. I am engraving a Scriabin prelude in 15/8 time. I'm having two problems both related to the tempo of the piece. Scriabin used a metronome marking of a dotted quarter note tied to a quarter note = 69 - 72. I can use markup and \rhythm to get the notes, but the two notes are too far apart. I can use two \note keywords to get the two notes close to each other, but no tie. So the first question is how do I get the two notes closer. I've attached the LilyPond source and a screenshot of my attempts.
Secondly, what's the best way to get the MIDI to play at the correct tempo? I'd like to do something like \tempo 5*8 = 69 but of course that doesn't work. Right now I have \tempo 8 = 345, which is 69 times five but is that the best way to do it? Thanks as always for your input. -- Knute Snortum
\version "2.24.2" tempoMarkupA = \markup { \large "Presto" \hspace #0.4 \teeny \rhythm { 4.~ 4 } \small \normal-text "= 69-72" } tempoMarkupB = \markup { \large "Presto" \hspace #0.4 \translate #'(0 . 0.4) \teeny { \note { 4. } #UP \note { 4 } #UP } \small \normal-text "= 69-72" } { \tempo \tempoMarkupA c'1 } { \tempo \tempoMarkupB c'1 }