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Odd symbol in Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos Book 1
Today I came across an odd symbol in Béla Bartók's Microkosmos.
The symbol occurs in Book 1, Score 21, Measure 8, at the end of a phrasing slur.
It looks like a vertical bar that crosses only the ...
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Creating trill staff in lilypond
I'm learning BWV775 (Bach Invention IV - D Minor) and the score I'm working from has a small extra staff for a trill in measure 17
The treble & bass staves are easy enough in Lilypond, and for ...
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What's this L symbol in piano notation called?
There's a symbol used in piano manuscript notation that means "play this in the other hand, even though it's written in this one". It looks like a capital L shape:
As you can (maybe) see in ...
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Notation: grace note played on the beat with a chord
I want to write a four note chord in which three notes are held but one note is played and released very quickly. The extra note is played on the beat with the rest of the chord so is not an ...
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LilyPond piano score: switching between alternating and simultaneous chords
I have piece of piano music that has two parts. In one part, chords are alternating between hands but I don't want to express staves precisely to leave it for a player. In the second part, the hands ...
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