coloring notes with more voices in a staff

[Go77]

Hi,

I'm trying to color the note heads of a single voice in a staff. I tried 
to do that with the following code:


/\version "2.24.3"
\relative c
  {
   f'2( g4.)
    << { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a }
   { \override NoteHead.color = #red
 g8 | d4 d4 e16 f
 \revert NoteHead.color } >>
    a8 r4
  } /

This results in the noteheads of /both /voices being colored instead of 
only the upper one (in this case):


So, is there any way to achieve my goal of coloring only the upper notes?

Joop

Re: coloring notes with more voices in a staff

[William Rehwinkel via LilyPond user discussion]

Dear Joop,

Use \tweak color #red , like so

\version "2.25.6"
\relative c
  {
   f'2( g4.)
<< { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a }
   { \tweak color #red
 g8 | d4 d4 e16 f
   }
 >>
a8 r4
  }

Thanks,
-William

On 3/18/24 12:41, Go77 wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to color the note heads of a single voice in a staff. I tried 
to do that with the following code:


/\version "2.24.3"
\relative c
   {
    f'2( g4.)
     << { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a }
    { \override NoteHead.color = #red
  g8 | d4 d4 e16 f
  \revert NoteHead.color } >>
     a8 r4
   } /

This results in the noteheads of /both /voices being colored instead of 
only the upper one (in this case):


So, is there any way to achieve my goal of coloring only the upper notes?

Joop





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Re: coloring notes with more voices in a staff

[Aaron Hill]

On 2024-03-18 9:41 am, Go77 wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to color the note heads of a single voice in a staff. I 
tried to do that with the following code:


/\version "2.24.3"
\relative c
  {
   f'2( g4.)
    << { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a }
   { \override NoteHead.color = #red
 g8 | d4 d4 e16 f
 \revert NoteHead.color } >>
    a8 r4
  } /

This results in the noteheads of /both /voices being colored instead of 
only the upper one (in this case):


So, is there any way to achieve my goal of coloring only the upper 
notes?


Since you did not use \\ within the << >>, there is no implicit voice 
creation.  As it stands, you only have one voice.


You can review the documentation ([1] and [2]) for more information on 
creating voice contexts.


[1]: 
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/i_0027m-hearing-voices
[2]: 
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/explicitly-instantiating-voices



-- Aaron Hill

Re: coloring notes with more voices in a staff

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Hi Joop,

I'd forget voices and do:

\version "2.24.3"

nr = \tweak color #red \etc

\relative c
  {
   f'2( g4.)
   8 |
   <\nr d f>4 q <\nr e g>16 <\nr f a>
a8 r4
  }

HTH, cheers,
Pierre

Le lun. 18 mars 2024 à 18:44, Go77  a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to color the note heads of a single voice in a staff. I tried
> to do that with the following code:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *\version "2.24.3" \relative c   {f'2( g4.) << { d8 | f4
> f4 g16 a }{ \override NoteHead.color = #red  g8 |
> d4 d4 e16 f  \revert NoteHead.color } >> a8 r4   }  *
>
> This results in the noteheads of *both *voices being colored instead of
> only the upper one (in this case):
>
> So, is there any way to achieve my goal of coloring only the upper notes?
>
> Joop
>
>
>