Re: 3-8th notes, the first one by itself; two questions; what is this called and how to do it?

[David Wright]

On Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 18:09:35 (-0800), Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Thanks, David.
> 
> I think I finally found the answer in the manual (see attached screenshot).
> 
> \set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f
That's certainly more compact, but I've not used it because I'm more
interested in avoiding long "instrumentalist" beams in favour of
shorter ones, even with half-note beats, because I set vocal music.

(In the attachment, \score makes a \layout local, so that exx. 1 and 3
don't see them. Compound time is unaffected, because the \layout time
signatures never have 8 in the denominator, so no match.)

Cheers,
David.

\relative a' {
  \time 3/4
  r4. a8 a a |
  \set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f
  r4. a8 a a |
}

\score {
  \relative a' {
    \time 3/4
    r4. a8 a a |
    r4. a8 a a |
  }
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \overrideTimeSignatureSettings
      3/4 % timeSignatureFraction
      1/8 % baseMomentFraction
      2,2,2 % beatStructure
      #'() % beamExceptions
    }
  }
}

\relative a' {
  \time 6/4
  a8 a a a a2 a8 a a a |
  \set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f % impotent
  r4. a8 a a a2 a8 a |
}

\score {
  \relative a' {
    \time 6/4
    a8 a a a a2 a8 a a a |
    r4. a8 a a a2 a8 a |
  }
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \overrideTimeSignatureSettings
      6/4 % timeSignatureFraction
      1/8 % baseMomentFraction
      2,2,2,2,2,2 % beatStructure
      #'() % beamExceptions
    }
  }
}

\score {
  \relative a' {
    \time 12/8
    a8 a a a a2 a8 a a a |
    r4. a8 a a a2 a8 a |
  }
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \overrideTimeSignatureSettings
      6/4 % timeSignatureFraction
      1/8 % baseMomentFraction
      2,2,2,2,2,2 % beatStructure
      #'() % beamExceptions
    }
  }
}