Questions tagged [anacrusis]
For questions about or in relation to: an anacrusis, pickup measure, or partial bar that occurs at the start of a piece (or phrase) of music. Questions on: function, notation, implementation, and performance, of anacrusis are on-topic.
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Full bar rest at the end of piece
Béla Bartok's Mikrokosmos - Vol. I is a book of short and simple, yet quirky piano pieces. Piece No. 24. Pastorale is shown below.
A full bar rest (for both hands) ends the piece. This is something ...
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Lilypond verse lyrics with repeat and anacrusis
I'm wondering if someone can point me to a snippet or other example as I'm yet to find a solution ...
I have a piece, a simple tune with 2 verses n Lilypond where the piano parts, melody and words are ...
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Recognise anacrusis in MuseScore, from Lilypond's midi files
I generate midi files in LilyPond and import them into MuseScore for playback.
When there is an anacrusis in the piece, I use LilyPond's \partial command:
\version "2.21.0"
\score {
{
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lilypond - make it start counting from a partial opening measure
We have noticed that when a part starts with a partial measure, LilyPond will consider the first measure to be the following one. Is there an easy way to tell LilyPond to start counting from the ...
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Is there a name for the incomplete measure completing the anacrusis?
In a piece that starts with an anacrusis/pickup measure and ends, or ends a repeating section, with a compensating incomplete measure, is there a term for that final measure?
incomplete measure can ...
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Ignored rest at the beginning of a section
I'm entering some fiddle music into Guitar Pro 7.5 and trying to handle a second section.
At the beginning of the second section, the bar is short (only two eighth notes) just like an anacrusis, but ...
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Notes and Beat "slashes" in the same measure
I have a song I'm working on where the chorus ends with a half note in the first half of a measure. I would like to do an instrumental/solo, I want to allow freedom to the musician so I have just ...
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Anacrusis in Bach BWV 816 (French suite no. 5 in Gmaj) Gavotte
I had learned piano when I was young, and now I'm learning it again. I'm interested in Bach's pieces and BWV816 is the first piece my teacher suggested to learn.
The following is the first 9 and half ...
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Time signature issue in MuseScore
How to add only one rest or note at the starting of the piece against the time signature without changing it in musescore?
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How to write a pickup measure with 5/16 duration in Lilypond?
I'm trying to write sheet music for a piece with a pickup measure of 5 sixteenth notes. Lilypond has the \partial command for this, but it only accepts a single duration. That duration may be dotted, ...
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Should pickup measures have measure numbers?
I’m in common time (4/4) and I have a pickup measure with only a quarter note in it. Should it have a measure number?
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Did the music of the common practice period always end with a full measure?
If there are pieces which end with an incomplete measure, then what would be some examples? And is there a term for an incomplete measure at the end? Something that would be the opposite of anacrusis.
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Anacruses, Bar Lines, and Line Breaks
I am an amateur composer.
Page layout is important to me; I like the line breaks to be significant punctuation to the score.
i.e. the end of: sections, parts, phrases, lines of verse/lyrics, are ...
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Notation of last measure of a song with a pickup measure
I'm currently notating a song and don't know what's the correct way to write the ending of it.
The song has a pickup measure with a quarter note duration. Because of that, the correct way of ...
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Do you play the upbeat when beginning to play a series of notes, and then after?
Do you play an upbeat like this when beginning the song, and then also at the end?
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Rests in pickup measure (anacrusis)
I know that in regular measures you can use the whole rest to indicate a complete measure of rest in any time signature, but does that also apply to a pickup bar?
Should you use the actual rest ...
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How to write a score that begins with a pickup note and repeats
I'm writing a song as a score for piano and vocal. The verses begin with a pickup note on 4. So, after the chorus I end on 4 and then pickup up into the next verse with a repeat sign.
The question is: ...
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How do you center partial measure rests in LilyPond?
I'm using \partial to create a pickup in LilyPond, and I'm trying to fill it with rests, so I'm using the command:
\partial 4 r4
This works, but the output is ugly and off center:
How do I make this ...
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How to show an empty chord in an anacrusus
I'm using Lilypond 2.19.55. I have an anacrusis. The staff and lyrics are fine. How do I define an empty place for a chord? If I don't, lilypond complains. If I use f4, it complains at the c:7 because ...
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What semantic notions underlie the Ancient Greek 'Anacrusis' and its meaning as 'pickup note'?
[Etymonline :] "unstressed syllable at the beginning of a verse," 1833,
Latinized
from Greek anakrousis "a pushing back," of a ship, "backing water,"
from anakrouein &...
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What's the meaning of a note before the time signature?
I'm working on a project using music sheets, but I don't understand music theory or notation.
The sheet I'm studying is The Four Seasons. From what I gather the sheet was written with the MuseScore ...
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How should I play/phrase an anacrusis (aka pickup)?
There is a great answer here about recognizing anacruses, but my question is about how to perform them.
The Wikipedia page has a quote on this:
An anacrusis may also be evoked solely metrical (non-...
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Is it necessary to include the anacrusis?
I am putting the Psalms to the music of popular hymns using a software called MuseScore. I noticed that many hymns start with an anacrusis and then divide the measure at the end of the line, so that ...
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A weird form of Anacrusis
I saw this in a piece the other day and was wondering if there is a term for it. The piece begins on a trill that ends on the first beat of a a measure. The rhytm then mimics a upbeat yet there is ...
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How can a non-musician recognize anacrusis?
I need help understanding anacrusis (pickup notes). I'm no musician - I'm more of an anthropologist. I was reading some articles on ethnomusicology, and one of them makes reference to anacrusis in ...
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Partial Measures with Matching Ending Measure
In a hymn I am working on, the first measure is partial and has only an eighth note, but the Time Signature is 6:8. Someone told me that the ending measure should also be offset in reverse to make up ...
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Why must the final bar complete the anacrusis?
The Wikipedia page for anacrusis states that
Western standards for musical notation often include the recommendation that when a piece of written music begins with an anacrusis, the composer, ...
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