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Linking quaver and semiquaver beams over a rest with LilyPond
I am transcribing the Sentimental Tango for four hands by Vasha Azarashvili. And I'd like to obtain this:
But my code (in Italian, but surely you get the point)
\language "italiano"
<...
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Misplaced rest in triplet
LilyPond beginner here.
I am trying to set an easy shuffle beat rhythm for the drums as follows:
\version "2.24.2"
\new DrumStaff {
<<
\new DrumVoice {\voiceOne
\drummode{\...
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How to align breve rests to the middle of a bar
I have the following code in Lilypond:
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff <<
\new Voice \relative a' {
\time 4/2
r\breve
}
\new Voice = "high" \relative d' {
e1\...
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How to engrave these rest symbols in LilyPond？
The original instrument for the music below is violin, I'm engraving this piece for another instrument using LilyPond v2.20.
How can I make the rest symbols that look like the first line below?
And, ...
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How to represent beams broken with rests in LilyPond
I'm trying to write the following in LilyPond notation:
As shown in the circled parts of the image, there are two different ways of representing a beam that spans a sixteenth note – a sixteenth rest –...
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Adding special text, signs, symbols, and marks, to LilyPond scores
What is the best way to add special text, signs, symbols, and marks for multi-measure rests, rehearsal marks, segno, and coda symbols, in LilyPond code?
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LilyPond: rests making an empty whole measure
I am writing (in LilyPond) the beautiful lyrical waltz of Shostakovich, and I am getting a whole measure empty. What I want to achieve is the following:
But I am getting this:
I'd tried several ...
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How do I use full bar rests in LilyPond with long bar lengths?
I am working with a file that has some bars of very long duration (the first bar of the piece is in 20/8), and simply putting R1 will not give me a full bar rest. In the following bar of 8/8, it works ...
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Merge rests in LilyPond
I'm writing a program which produces scores in LilyPond. Due to some limitations in this program, the rests are written as if they were seperate notes:
r2 r4. r8 | r2 r4. e''8 | r4 r4 e''2 |
Is there ...
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How can I create a rest the same length as a block of music?
I'm typesetting music (a set of versicles and responses), some of which are accompanied and some of which aren't, and I'm using some custom Scheme functions to collect pieces in parallel (and ...
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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 add rest above a note in LilyPond
I'm trying to typeset the following snippet of violin music. My first idea was to use two voices here but then I would not be able to make a slur between them. Is it possible without using manual ...
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Lilypond "elevation" of rests after two voice passage
After I resolve a two voice passage that involves using \set associatedVoice, rests for the remainder of the piece are higher on the staff than before:
The eighth rest at the beginning is lower on ...
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Arbitrary length full-measure rests in LilyPond
In LilyPond one can make long full-measure rests with:
\compressFullBarRests
R1*12
which outputs:
Is there an engraver I can turn off, or some other way to remove the number from above the ...
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