I'm working on a transcription/editing project. At one point, the piano part has some grace-note arpeggios while the bass plays a melodic line. I am trying to make this "look nice" in the full score, and I'm having trouble figuring out how to do it.
If I compile the code below, I get the following (in the third system):
This introduces additional space at the start of the bar (underlined in green), which is OK — but also in the middle of the bar, which makes it harder for the conductor to interpret the rhythmic line.
If I uncomment the line \override SpacingSpanner.strict-grace-spacing = ##t, I get the following:
The rhythmic line in the bass is much easier to read, but the gracenote arpeggios are far too compressed, colliding with both the barlines and their own accidentals.
What I would like is some way to get the arpeggios having something like the width they have in the first example, but without inserting extra space in the middle of a bar. Extra space at the start of a bar is fine. Basically, I want to follow Gould's advice on grace note alignment in scores:
Grace notes written after the bar line displace the first beat to the right. All other parts align with the measured value, and not with the grace notes.
In a score, when grace-note groups come after the beginning of the bar, note spacing in one part need not necessarily be expanded to accommodate grace notes in another part, even though the grace notes start later in the bar than the rhythmic alignment suggests. This facilitates score reading, as it prevents distorted note spacing of a single beat.
How can I accomplish this?
Code:
(Apologies for the length, this really was about as minimal as I could make it)
\version "2.24.0"
RHpianonotes = {
% Right hand
\time 2/2
\clef bass
\relative c {
\transposition c'
R1
\override Score.GraceSpacing.spacing-increment = #1.0
%<<
% {\grace{ s8.^\markup{\italic "very dry, with quick and vigorous arpeggio"}} s8}
%\\
{ \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral }% >>
r8 r4
r4 \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8
r2 \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8 r4
r4 \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8 r2
\stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8 r4 r2
\stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8 r4
r4 \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8
r2 \stemUp \change Staff = "lower" \grace { d,,32( a' bes \change Staff = "upper" \stemDown e f fis} a8) \stemNeutral r8 r4
}
}
LHpianonotes = {
\time 2/2
\clef bass
\relative c {
%\override Staff.GraceSpacing.spacing-increment = #5.0
R1
%\grace{s8.}
s1*6
}
}
bassnotes = {
\relative c {
\clef bass
\time 2/2
\transposition c
R1
\grace {s8.}
R1*2
%\noPageTurn
%\tag #'partOnly {\pageTurn}
d'4_\p r4 r8 d e d
f4->( d8) r8 r8 d e d
fis8->( f) d4 r8 \clef tenor a'8 b a
\tuplet 3/2 {c->( b) a} eis8. fis16 d4 r8 cis8~
}
}
\score{
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/16)
% \override SpacingSpanner.uniform-stretching = ##t
% \override SpacingSpanner.strict-grace-spacing = ##t
}
}
<<
\accidentalStyle Score.modern
\new PianoStaff
<<
\new Staff = "upper" {\RHpianonotes}
\new Staff = "lower" {\LHpianonotes}
>>
\new Staff="Staff_bass"
{
<< \bassnotes >>
}
>>
}
