Re: Cadenza duet

2025-01-14 Thread John Burt
That worked! thank you. I don't understand the thing with \partial 1024 s1024, though. all best! John On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM Knute Snortum wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM John Burt wrote: > >> I'm trying to engrave a piece in which the first

Cadenza duet

2025-01-14 Thread John Burt
I'm trying to engrave a piece in which the first and second tenors sing together a passage senza mesura. Is it possible for a cadenza to be written for two voices? How do I do this? with thanks John Burt

Hold a note the length of a cadenza

2023-12-26 Thread John Burt
Dear list, While one part is singing a cadenza another part is holding a long note. I know how to make a rest or a skip the length of a cadenza bu not how to make a held note the length of the cadenza. thanks John Burt

Alternative beginnings

2023-04-01 Thread John Burt
I know how to use \repeat volta to produce alternative endings. I'm trying to set a song in which the music for verses 2 and 3 is different from the music for verse 1. Is there something like \repeat volta for alternative beginnings? thanks John

Like \bendAfter but before a note

2020-11-06 Thread John Burt
I'm trying to render a vocal call in which the singer swoops up to the note and then swoops down. I know I can do the swooping down part with \bendAfter. How can I handle the swooping up part? with thanks John Burt

Making a click track on midi output

2020-09-13 Thread John Burt
I'm making a score for a virtual choir. In addition to the pdf of the score, I'd like to send along a midi file which includes a "click track" to guide the singers. I know how to make the midi file. But I don't know how to include a click track. Can anyone help me with this? John

Strange behavior with grace notes

2020-07-24 Thread John Burt
When the first notes of a piece are grace notes, if there are other voices, or other staves in the piece, the grace note is set in a separate bar, and then the time signature and key are printed again. I notice the same thing with appoggiatura and accacciatura. I tried to make this example as minim

Drone over a cadenza

2020-07-23 Thread John Burt
While the second tenor part is singing a cadenza, the first tenor and the baritone parts are holding a note as long as the cadenza. I now how to make a rest a long as a cadenza -- #(mmrest-of-length MyCadenza) but I don't know how to do this with a note. Is there a way? thanks John

Re: How to code a glide?

2020-02-08 Thread John Burt
Yes, \bendAfter is just what I was looking for. Thank you very much! On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 5:52 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Sa., 8. Feb. 2020 um 23:47 Uhr schrieb John Burt : > > > > I'm sorry to say that I don't even know the proper term for what I am > try

How to code a glide?

2020-02-08 Thread John Burt
a squiggly descending line after the last note. I'd like to put that in my score, but I have no idea how to code it. Does anyone have an idea? John Burt

Re: Instructions to install lilypond onto Raspberry Pi

2020-01-17 Thread John Burt
Thank you for your help. I solved the problem in a stupidly easy way, or rather discovered that I had caused the problem in a stupid way. It struck me as strange that I could launch Denemo but not Lilypond, and it occured to me that when I installed Denemo from the add/remove software tab on the pr

Re: Instructions to install lilypond onto Raspberry Pi

2020-01-17 Thread John Burt
I downloaded the deb-file for lilypond from http://partitura.org/index.php/lilypond/. It installed smoothly. But I had trouble getting it to run because of the required dependency on guile 1.8 (I have guile 2 something). I followed the instructions on the partitura page for downloading guile 1.8, b