first-time user, a couple of questions

Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out s

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Xavier Noria writes: > >> Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and >> the documentation, they are really good! >> >> I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: >> >&

how to reuse common header attributes

Hi, I am getting familiar with the docs, but can't yet figure this out by myself. I am transcribing a song in C, and would like the same document to include its transposition in E flat. The file structure I have come with so far is: \version "2.16.1" \include "english.ly" melody =

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Noeck wrote: >> { \transpose ds c \melody } % "ds" because "ef" yields a weird key > > Thomas already posted the correct transposition, but just to emphasize: > If I understand what you want to do, the arguments of \transpose must be > inverted. You want to

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

Ah, maybe the comment about the weird key made you think I got the arguments the other way around. Let me explain that. The original song is in F sharp ("You And I", Stevie Wonder). The command \transpose ef c generates a key with sharps and double sharps (see image). On the other hand

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Noeck wrote: > Ok, I see, I misunderstood. I have never played transposing instruments, > so I can't tell what the right wording is, but it sounds reasonable. > I only used transpose for "real" transposition (e.g. to make it easier > for singers) where the both th

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

Awesome reply, thanks very much Keith. On 10 Dec 2012, at 00:13, Keith OHara wrote: > Xavier Noria hashref.com> writes: > >> I am transcribing a song in C, and would like the same document to >> include its transposition in E flat. > [...] >> 1) The structure an

Re: how to reuse common header attributes

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Keith OHara wrote: > I think so, mostly. Maybe put an extra set of {} around \addlyrics, > just in case you forget how \addlyrics works (like I often do). I have checked the docs for lyrics in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Enter

looking for a style guide

Is there any style guide for scores online? For example, I don't know if I should break the groups of four eight notes in the sample in pairs... would like to get the picture about these basic things. <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: looking for a style guide

lied some ugly compound time signature such as 1/2 2/4 every other > measure, unless it is something truly unusual like 2/3 5/4 2/4 time. > I hope that helps your thinking about how to get the necessary > information to the performer. > > regards, > > Shane Brandes > > On S

Re: Accidental placement

On 13 Jan 2013, at 18:32, Noeck wrote: > * On this website: http://pian-e-forte.de/texte/index.htm > > The article describes good practices of music engraving and I compared > the rules mentioned there with the LilyPond output. Most of the rules > are covered by LilyPond automatically. I could s

how to define a command alias

I have a score with about 50 \acciaccaturas that take too much space in the source code compared to the surrounding music. Is there a way to define an alias to be able to use a shorter name? Please do not hesitate to point me to the documentation if it is covered somewhere. __

two staffs in one page

I am writing a jazz solo and would like to have in addition to the main staff a couple of lines with the chords listed with their notes displayed. Right now I have this variable defined chordslist = \chordmode { c1:7 cs1:7 d1:m7 d1:7 d1:aug7 d1:11 d1:13 ef1:13 e1:7 e1:aug7 f1:7 g1:7 g1:aug7 a1:

Re: two staffs in one page

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Nathan wrote: I'm not sure if I follow your question. Do you have an image or something > that demonstrates what you want? > Yep, see the attachment. I put the chords at the top for reference, and then the solo follows. The final source code is: https://githu

generating a few isolated notes

I would like to generate this swing equality https://musescore.org/sites/musescore.org/files/swing_0.jpg to have it printed in a t-shirt. I am trying something like this (cargo culting online code) but can't get spacing around the equal sign right. I have read the documentation about horiz

Re: generating a few isolated notes

Right now the horizontal spacing is not right, it looks like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/539b8y69rivb9cu/Screenshot%202016-03- 04%2013.12.52.png?dl=0 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

Just confirming that installing from a fresh MacPorts works perfectly. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

\bendBefore

A web search shows \bendBefore is not implemented. I have tried some snippets found out there but failed to get the bends (using LilyJAZZ if that matters). I need the bend to indicate how to attack certain notes in saxophone scores. Does anybody have a modern snippet to share? ___

Re: \bendBefore

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Nathan wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Xavier Noria wrote: > > A web search shows \bendBefore is not implemented. I have tried some > > snippets found out there but failed to get the bends (using LilyJAZZ if > that > > matters). &g

many bars with the same chrod

Hi, I am transcribing "Rabbits In The Pea Patch", by Maceo Parker, for personal study: Maceo Parker – Rabbits In The Pea Patch In this theme Maceo improvises over one chord, and after 32 bars or something it goes up one, and after another

Re: many bars with the same chrod

Playing with it. Is there a way to say A1:7*32, similar to the notation for multiple rests? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: many bars with the same chrod

Ah, this seems to do what I need: \version "2.18.0" harmony = \chordmode { R1*4 a1*4:7 b1*4:7 } solo = \relative c'' { r1 | r1 | r1 | a1 | \break a1 | a1 | a1 | a1 | \break b1 | b1 | b1 | b1 \bar ".." } \score { << \new ChordNames { \harmony } \solo >> } __

wrapping music

I am writing a score that has a few notes with cross heads. It would be helpful to define \cross such that \cross { c8 c8 c8 } would expand to: \override NoteHead.style = #'cross c8 c8 c8 \revert NoteHead.style Is that possible? ___ lilypo

Re: wrapping music

Awesome, thanks very much! On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 11.03.2014 14:57, schrieb Xavier Noria: > > I am writing a score that has a few notes with cross heads. It would be >> helpful to define \cross such that >> >> \cross { c8 c8

advice on final ad lib measure

I am transcribing the saxophone part of a theme of Dave Brubeck: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Five For Ten Small Fingers The last "measure" is played ad lib. The way they play suggests eights to me to choose a notation, but they do not look

Fwd: advice on final ad lib measure

Followup for the archives: \cadenzaOn made the trick quite easily, see screenshot. I don't know if that's an idiomatic way to transcribe those bars, but looks intuitive to me. Thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu

Re: Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and LilyPond compatibility?

The cmake port needs Xcode 6.1 which still has not hit the App Store. Meanwhile it can be dowloaded from the Apple developer center if you have an account. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

generating small snippets

Hi! I am taking notes of music classes in Markdown. Those notes go through a static web site generator (pandoc), and they use LilyPond textual syntax in code blocks for music notation for simple snippets (think scales, chords, arpeggios, etc.) That works fine, but if there was a way to get minima

Re: LilyPond Video Tutorials (Beginner)

Awesome! Thanks very much for working on this. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

Very happy to see the website runs on Ruby on Rails![*] (Core team member over here.) [*] http://scalematcher.adamspiers.org/info/faq ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

why is there no \bendBefore?

I am transcribing some saxophone jazz themes, and revising them my teacher drew by hand in my score what you would call \bendBefore. That notation seems natural to me, because the saxophonist is not doing an appoggiatura or anything like that, he attacks the measure by bending the first note upwar

example LilyJAZZ before/after

Hi, just wanted to share these measures before/after LilyJAZZ. Beautiful! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: example LilyJAZZ before/after

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Johan Vromans wrote: Xavier Noria writes: > > > And now that I created expectation by means of my faulty synapses... here > > they are :D. > > Looks great! > Is there a writeup somewhere how to achieve this? This was my starting point,

Half-diminished seventh chord

Is there a way to get the "crossed-o" notation for a half-diminished seventh chord (m7♭5)? I don't see it in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: Half-diminished seventh chord

Awesome! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:12 PM, pls wrote: > > On 17.10.2013, at 13:04, Xavier Noria wrote: > > Is there a way to get the "crossed-o" notation for a half-diminished > seventh chord (m7♭5)? I don't see it in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documen

notation for double-time?

Not specific to Lilypond but hope you don't mind the question, I have looked for this in online music notation glossaries without success. I am transcribing a jazz ballad, and I am told the player thinks the solo in double-time and I should reflect that switching to 8ths rather than 16ths. Is the

3x repeats

Is this idiomatic notation for repeating those two bars three times? <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: 3x repeats

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Nathan wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Xavier Noria wrote: > > Is this idiomatic notation for repeating those two bars three times? > > It'd be better with the text at the beginning or end of the passage. > My personal favorite, how

Re: 3x repeats

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: The only guidance in Gould is where she writes "Repeat 3 times" in a > horizontal bracket. > How do you produce that? I have looked at the documentation but didn't figure it out. ___ lilypond-user m

Re: 3x repeats

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: I've no idea - I'm just quoting what Elaine Gould says... > Ah, OK :) By now I am putting a "3x" mark above the repeat (if I put the mark at the beginning it is printed above the clef rather than at the beginning of the bar). <>__

Re: 3x repeats

Looks awesome! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: notation for double-time?

For the archives: my teacher (professional jazz player) told me that you just put "double-time feel", or "half time feel". ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: 3x repeats

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Am 22.12.2013 05:54, schrieb Alex Loomis: > > In many contexts it's preferable to write it out instead of using percent >> repeats. If it's a long passage then it's frequently written pretty much >> like you had it except with the x3 at the repea

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.12

The port in MacPorts has not been updated right? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.12

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: That could take a little time. I only maintain the source release and the > Windows installer. > Awesome thank you. And thanks a lot for the release :). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-