Greetings!
I would like to do something like this:
I added the red volta in Inkscape
This is the mwe I used to create the basic structure:
\fixed c'' {
\repeat volta 4 {
c4 d e f
\alternative {
\volta 1,2,3 { \once \override Score.VoltaBracket.musical-length
= \musicLength 1
Link to the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/arts/music/classical-music-editing-publishing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.BW6k.Fhv8VUgv47XR&smid=url-share
It should bypass the paywall as a gift article.
On 14.03.2025 15.20, Yoshiaki Onishi wrote:
Inside the Detail-Obsessed, Essent
EndeavourOS (based on Arch) offers both stable and dev versions on
Lilypond, and latest Frescobaldi.
Jakob
On 03.02.2025 18.55, Brian O'Folan wrote:
Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac
Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a
laptop wi
Hello Maurits,
Thank you for making this utility!
I tried with a 4.4.3 file and ran into this error:
file:///usr/lib/node_modules/mscx2ly/lib.js:397
const instruments = order.get('instrument').map((instrument) => {
^
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null
Hello everybody!
I've been looking at the chords documentation:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/customizing-chord-names
I came across this information: "The chordNoteNamer property can be set
to a specialized function to change this behavior. For example, the bass
note
You forgot the lilypond list email, Dimitri.
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Subject:Re: Figured bass
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:37:09 +0300
From: Dimitri Sykias
To: Jakob Pedersen
OK. I found it: \set figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT
On 25 Apr 2024, at 1:32 AM
"2.24.1”)
\figures {
\override FiguredBass.BassFigure.font-size = #2
<6- 4> <6> <6- 4-> <_-> <5-> <5+ _+> < 5- _-> <6 _+> <_+> <5- _->}
accidentals are placed at the left side of the number.
On 25 Apr 2024, at 1:10 AM, Jakob Pede
Hi Dimitri
Isn't that the standard as shown in the example?
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/figured-bass
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 25.04.2024 00.03, Dimitri Sykias wrote:
In Figured bass is it possible to place accidentals at the right side of the
number? (Ex. 6b, 5#)
Thank
Hi David,
It might be beneficial if you would share your lilypond file, or
shortened version of it, so that the smart folks here can look at it and
point you in the right direction.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 24.03.2024 17.13, David Sumbler wrote:
I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have
Hello Gian,
I believe this is what you are looking for:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/learning/satb-vocal-score
Looking at your example, you might need to look at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices,
as you have more than two voices per staff
Hello!
An easy fix, and that makes perfect sense. In other words, it /was/
something I did! :)
Thank you Jean and Kieren for your prompt responses.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 06.02.2024 23.48, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
It's not a bug — by default, LilyPond forbids line breaks on a bar
line when
Well, yes and no. The original ignores barlines here and there. Bars
25-27 in T1 have 12 beats total, they are just distributed oddly against
the 2/2 time.
/Jakob
On 06.02.2024 22.59, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Jakob,
In m25, T1 has 5 beats. Is that correct?
– Kieren
Thank you very much for this!
I've never fiddled with \scaleDuration but that's an easy hack, and I
only need to use it 10-12 places in the score in total, so not a lot of
work :)
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 05.02.2024 23.56, Hans Aikema wrote:
On 5 Feb 2024, at 20:29, Jakob Pe
Hello all,
I've been trying to replicate a score from CPDL.
The font is terrible, the notes are weirdly shaped. I really don't like
it. I wonder what software made it. Also, why two hyphens in that short
a space?
(I'm wondering which software was used to make it in the first place.)
I've
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Subject:Re: Duration shortcut not working for rests
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 17:19:42 -0500
From: William Ashton
To: Jakob Pedersen
Part of what may be confusing me is that when defining a \new Dynamics
voice, I will use only spacer rests
Remember to add the list email to your messages :)
/J
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Subject:Re: Duration shortcut not working for rests
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 17:11:08 -0500
From: William Ashton
To: Jakob Pedersen
Sure. I recognize that that would work. I guess the
Hi William,
If you want to write more rests, the syntax is
r4 r r b
Much like
c'4 r e f
are all quarter notes and a quarter rest.
Lilypond remembers the duration, but needs to know what to print with
that duration.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 03.02.2024 22.55, William Ashton wrote:
Hello a
Hello Joel
You can shape the Slur manually, like so:
\version "2.25.11"
\fixed c' {
% undotted note: slur attaches correctly
2
|
% dotted note: slur is moved vertically
\shape #'((1 . 0.5) (0.5 . 0.3) (0.5 . 0.3) (0 . 0)) Slur %adjusting
the numbers control the four control points
Good morning,
I think the original is possible only because the lyrics are different.
If you want to write the melody with the lyrics to the second stanza
only, it would make no sense to have lyrics corresponding to a rest.
A version with the second stanza text only could look like this:
glo
Thank you kindly, Kieran. I appreciate your time.
I agree about the structure. Thank you for the example. I'll follow that.
Whatever else needs adjusting I'm sure I can force-\tweak into place.
Jakob
On 17.12.2023 15.49, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Jakob,
Does anyone know how to align Voice
Thank you very much for this clarification, David. That makes a lot of
sense (once you know it.)
On 17.12.2023 02.50, David Kastrup wrote:
\voiceOne is the topmost voice. \voiceTwo is the bottommost voice.
\voiceThree is the voice below \voiceOne. \voiceFour is the voice above
\voiceTwo.
The
Greetings!
I've always struggled with multiple voice and getting things to align
correctly. I assume there's some basic truth I'm missing.
I'm attempting to transcribe an organ chorale and have run into a
problem with these three bars:
I have tried all sorts of combination of \Voice and \
For what it's worth, I think the original suggestion (with the top-left
clef adjusted by -4.4%) is the better of the two.
I do understand that there's an argument to be made against adjusting
clefs that aren't /too/ bad, but the adjusted versions of the treble
clefs /are/ better imo.
With ae
Hi Юрий
If it takes up too much space in your document, you can put it in its
own file and use /include path/to/other/file.ly in your main score
document. That makes it less messy to look at!
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 25.11.2023 18.54, Виноградов Юрий wrote:
Hello. There is one snippet that allo
Hi Mats-Olof,
You should be able to do what you wish with the help of this snippet:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/snippets/chords#chords-chord-names-alternative
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 31.10.2023 23.37, Mats-Olof Liljegren wrote:
Hi!
I would like to write e.g. am7-5 or Eadd9 or
Hi Vlad,
Perhaps not quite what you are looking for, but you can use columns of
markup like so:
\relative c'' { \time 2/4 g4^\markup { \center-column { \flat
\musicglyph "scripts.turn" \sharp } } e'8 c \bar "||" }
I'm sure there's a better way known to the real experts, so consider
this a
Hi Raj
I don't know why Lilypond does what it does, but you can achieve what
you desire by using
\overrideTimeSignatureSettings 3/4 1/4 1,1,1 #'() \time 3/4
in stead of just \time 3/4
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 23.09.2023 20.32, Rajesh Baskar wrote:
Hi,
In a normal musical notation when you ha
You can do so by modifying the staff-staff-distance property either
globally or for the staff in question.
\new StaffGroup \with {
\override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing.padding = #0 %adjust
to you needs
\override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing.basic-distance = #1
%adjust to you needs
} <<
Hello Carolyn,
I think what you are asking for is making it look something like this:
I made that using a graphics program, not lilypond.
While I get why you'd want it to look the same as similar places, I
think that 1) this is harder to read, because it looks like the first
crotchet is pos
Dear everybody,
So I've been wondering about the distance between the barline and the
first note of a measure.
I'm not an expert typesetter by any means, but it does seem to me that
the gap is narrower in lilypond scores than in examples by Gould, for
instance. I've come up with this compari
Hi Tom
The documentation provides different methods to fit music on fewer
pages:
https://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/fitting-music-onto-fewer-pages
Adding page-count = 6 to your /paper block is probably the easiest option.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 10.07.2023 00.39, Tom Sgouros wrot
Hi j
You need to use \clef "bass_15" to get it down another octave, not 16.
That's a step too far.
Best wishes,
J
On 23.06.2023 00.58, jh wrote:
Hello- I can't seem to find the forum page to ask this, in fact so
much has changed that perhaps I will not understand the answer.
for Contra
documentation, but that's a minor issue,
obviously, and perhaps not likely to crop up very often. To my
knowledge, this is the only place the \text command is used.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 30.05.2023 15.58, Robin Bannister wrote:
Jakob Pedersen wrote:
Is there any way to force lilypond to assume
f2 r2 \bar "|."
\set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f) end)
}
That produces this rather festive result:
My attempt
I assume this is because the text is being interpreted as dynamic
expressions and whatnot.
Is there any way to force lilypond to assume that it's simply text and
not any sort of musical expression?
Best wishes,
Jakob Pedersen
Frescobaldi 3.3.0 on Manjaro with Xfce 4.18 desktop: Automatically saves
to .ly without problems.
On 29.05.2023 22.47, Federico Bruni wrote:
Hi all
I'm wondering if we can close this old Frescobaldi issue:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/16
In some desktops (like GNOME) Fres
d warnings /section.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 23.05.2023 19.41, Abraham Lee wrote:
Hey, Jakob!
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM Jakob Pedersen wrote:
Dear Abraham and Xavier
Thank you for this! I must have read the documentation wrong.
That – unfortunately – causes new problems, because
kob!
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:44 AM Jakob Pedersen wrote:
Greetings!
I'm writing some chorales for playing hymns on the organ. I've
chosen a larger staff size to improve readability.
Having adjusted #(layout-set-staff-size ##) to 26, I'm noticing
some less-th
Greetings!
I'm writing some chorales for playing hymns on the organ. I've chosen a
larger staff size to improve readability.
Having adjusted #(layout-set-staff-size ##) to 26, I'm noticing some
less-than-fortunate side effects.
The key signature is very, very close to the clef, and the note
<<
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = "right" << \rightOne \\ \rightTwo >>
\new Staff = "left" { \clef bass << \leftOneC \\ \leftTwo >> }
>>
\new Staff = "pedal"
<< \clef bass \pedal >>
er, and if the line would have a shorter horizontal
distance, it will be lengthened (this is my personal choice, except I
set the glissando properties this way and manually insert glissandos).
Thanks,
-Will
On 5/17/23 13:33, Jakob Pedersen wrote:
Greetings!
I'm attempting to move a no
Dear Paul,
Thank you for this. I didn't know *1/2 was an option at all. While it's
definitely a hack – unashamedly so, even – I'm sure this little trick
will come in handy!
Jakob
On 17.05.2023 20.37, Paul Hodges wrote:
In fact Breitkopf's new Bach edition has somewhat more generous
spacing
ork. (3
was just an arbitrary number to see if it would move.) I can nudge the
notes at the beginning of the bar to the left, except the force-hshift
fails to work on the tied d in the bass line.
I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but I've been unable to figure it
out so far.
Best wishes,
Jakob Pedersen
ps. There's a free imaginary balloon to anyone who recognises the piece.
Hi Juergen,
Works perfectly! Thank you very much.
I can guarantee you I would never have figured that out on my own!
If anyone has any idea what this kind of notation is called, do let me
know :)
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 11.05.2023 12.59, juergen.gr...@xyz.de wrote:
Hello,
what about this:
quot; }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo a4_\markup { \hspace #-6 \teeny \note {2}
#1 } }
>>
\new Staff << \clef bass \key d \major
\new Voice { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature. stencil = ##f
\voiceOne fis4 }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo d4 }
>>
>>
}
Any thoughts? Does anyone know what this type of notation is called?
Best wishes,
Jakob Pedersen
Jakob
On 07.05.2023 00.28, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Le samedi 06 mai 2023 à 23:46 +0200, Jakob Pedersen a écrit :
Greetings!
Is it possible to define a chord-naming scheme with upper-case chord
names in semi-german, but bass notes similar to the default style but
lower-case.
This would res
at the chord names alternatives snippet, but it's much too
complicated for me to figure out, I'm afraid.
Best wishes,
Jakob Pedersen
Hi Eric
If you use \bookpart in stead, they automatically start on a new page.
Something like:
\bookpart {
\score { %score goes here}
\markup { %your notes }
}
\bookpart {
\score { %score goes here}
\markup { %your notes }
}
etc.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 05.05.2023 00.17, Eric Benson w
Hello!
I'm trying to change the fonts of my scores. It's a \book consisting of
several bookparts with a single \paper block.
I've sent a new roman font using this in the \paper block:
#(define fonts
(set-global-fonts
#:roman "Libertinus Serif"
#:factor (/ staff-height pt 18)
I have attached the score in case anyone would like to see a chorale
from the Danish hymnal with pedal marks for a struggling organ student.
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 22.04.2023 00.21, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Le vendredi 21 avril 2023 à 20:27 +0200, Jakob Pedersen a écrit :
Greetings!
First time
t; \relative c' {
\key d \major \time 4/4 a h e, a } >> }
\new Voice = "bas" {
\voiceTwo << \relative c {\key d \major \time 4/4
d\rtoe h\lheel a\ltoe a } >> }
>>
>>
}
Best wishes,
Jakob Pedersen
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