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Tagged with lilypond sheet-music
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LilyPond: How to have automatic accidentals (flat-sharp-natural) without placing “!’ or “?” every time
Since the upgrade of the program, we need to always add “!’ or “?” when the accidental change in the song. We didn’t do that before, only occasionally, because back then the program would add ...
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Lilypond - Lyrics In Context With Multiple Verses
In the manual, at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#working-with-lyrics-and-variables, it describes
For different or more complex orderings, the best ...
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LilyPond - Can I change the scoreTitleMarkup style/content depending on the page number?
Question:
Is there a way to change how the score title appears based on whether it’s on an odd or even page?
Given:
% --- paper.ily
\paper {
scoreTitleMarkup = \markup \column {
\fill-line {
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Question about tempo/text markup in Lilypond
I have the following score typeset in Lilypond:
and I have two question about markup:
I typeset "ritenuto" (slow down) as \tempo "rit.". Is it correct?
How can I move \tempo &...
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Garbled Lilypond Output
I divided the notes of my score into 6 variables respectively called: \partOne, \partTwo, \partThree, \partFour, \partFive and \partSix. Each variable contains 20 measures of music. Then I call the ...
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Generate different scores from a template
I am a brand new lilypond user and I am struggling to understand what the best structure for my project might be.
Here a simplified example of it
I have a main.ly file that I was planning to use as a ...
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Lilypond inserting bars at wrong place
I find that lilypond routinely inserts bars at wrong places and does not even warn about it. e.g. Consider this:
{
\...
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Lilypond: barre marker for single note values
This question deals with barre chord notation for guitar using the TextSpanner command in Lilypond. This approach is also described in the Lilypond documentation. However, this approach only works if ...
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Lilypond: B-note stem up
I want B note to have its stem going up most of the time so I don't need to use every time \stemUp and \stemNeutral commands.
Is that possible?
Thank you.
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LilyPond - Grace note too close to the barline
Lilypond places the grace notes very close to the barline (see image). Is it possible to create more room between the barline and the notes?
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LilyPond: words connected with hyphen
I started working on a songbook with English songs and came across lyrics where the words are connected with hyphens.
What would be the best way to show these in LilyPond?
In the example below there ...
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LilyPond: How to make a "Blank Staff Paper"?
I was trying to "update" and change some properties from the "Blank Staff Page" piece of code that appears here:
https://snipplr.com/view/579/blank-staff-paper-with-lilypond
Which ...
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Correct Connected (Across Staves) Arpeggio Collission
In context, the collision looks like this:
Here's a minimum example that appears to reproduce the problem:
\version "2.22.1"
rh=\relative c'' {\key des \major
<g g'>4.( <e e'&...
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How Do I Insert Markup (ritardando) Without a Note
In the solo voice here:
a ritardando shows up on beat four of the measure, but there is only a whole note in the measure. If I attach the ^\markup{\italic rit.} to that whole note, the ritardando ...
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How To Split Chords Across Staves
Using \autoChange \relative ..., one can set music across staves, but chords don't seem to follow the same rules:
How do I get the music to look more like this:
(code for the right hand)
\autoChange ...
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Tempo Marks On Each Part Individually, but not in Score
I have a part that looks like this:
And another like this:
What is the best way to make the score look like this:
(only one "Adagio") without having to change the lilypond source files ...
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Lilypond: How to insert a white space to shorten the last line?
I'd like to have the result as in the image. Is there a specific method to have that white space after the bar?
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Error and flat notes
Lilypond gives me an error in the second line but I can't find out where it is.
Plus in the last line all the F note are flat (ff) but the second F note even if it is written correctely do not show ...
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Triplet round instead of square [duplicate]
I'd like to use a round bracket instead the square bracket for the Triplets but I can't find a solution.
Here the exemple with regular square bracket: http://lilybin.com/iqdj8r/1
Thank you!
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Space the score notes evenly
Is there a way in LilyPond to space the score notes evenly?
In the sample image made with LilyPond 2.22.01 the notes are not equally spaced.
Edit
The idea is to get all the notes to be spaced equally ...
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Is there a non-verbose way to notate finger sustained notes in LilyPond?
I recently started learning LilyPond and am trying to notate finger sustained notes as described in Is there piano notation for finger sustained notes (as opposed to pedal sustain)?. I would be fine ...
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Is there a way of actually opening hairpins in LilyPond?
I need this for an Ossia staff that only appears for a single bar, like this:
The real hairpin starts before that bar (like the 2nd one), but spanning the hairpin where the lower one starts doesn't ...
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How do you set the number of measures per line or page in LilyPond / Frescobaldi when you have a score with multiple instruments?
As I am doing an arranging project, I was wondering how to set the number of measures per line and therefore page as it is a score with a rhythm section and five horns. I have seen these pages (line ...
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What is the best way get rhythm section notation (rhythmic notation, kicks over time, and slash notation) to display in LilyPond / Frescobaldi?
I have an arranging project due very soon, so I decided to ask this while I might still get help and a response. What is the best way to get rhythm section notation techniques like rhythmic notation, &...
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How can I set LilyPond's "Point and Click" from Skim to VSCode?
I'm working on on MacOS High Sierra, and I'm trying to use Point and Click so that Skim (PDF viewer) redirects to a specific file/line/column/character/letter/whatever on VSCode.
I've found a couple ...
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How do I get chords that last half a measure to display correctly in 6/8 in LilyPond / Frescobaldi?
I am currently using a lead sheet template to make a reference lead sheet for someone (I am looking to see if the chords that I found are correct, but that is a whole other problem). In LilyPond / ...
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Is there a way to use LilyPond with Visual Studio Code?
Some time ago I found a git repository with a Lilypond's syntax extension for VSCode.
I looked it up within VSCode's extension finder, and it was there as well.
And this extension is really useful, ...
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How can I use a custom text font in LilyPond?
I'm trying to use the "Hiragino Mincho ProN" font for Japanese text on the title, but I don't know how to use fonts, not even the other default ones (Sans and Typewriter).
I don't have any ...
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LilyPond - Adding dotted lines to "Table of Contents" TOC
I posted a question on here about two different coding techniques on how to add a table of contents to a LilyPond Book. I am kind of stuck with the solution in the first example, since it gives me the ...
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LilyPond - "Table of Contents" TOC in different languages
I am working on a music-book using LilyPond with different languages (here English and German). I created a minimal working example (MWE) referring to a snippet that can be found here in the LilyPond ...
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Exporting tabs from TuxGuitar to Lilypond
I am writing tabs from TuxGuitar and then export it to lilypond (Because I find it easier to do it in TuxGuitar). Here before exporting it to lilypond everything seems nice:
But when I export and ...
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How to get note names below staff in Lilypond?
I am a beginner at creating scores with Lilypond and I wonder if is there any way to make Lilypond automatically put note names below the staff (or above)? I searched the documentation but could not ...
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LilyPond - how to write a basic makefile
During the last years I tought myself to write scores using LilyPond and furthermore to make file handling easier by using Bash scripts.
Recently I started a project a little bigger than only one or ...
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LilyPond - changing the output format and resolution of a preview image
I use the folowing command to get preview images of my scores: lilypond -d preview -o preview/ my_file.ly
-d sets the output to the first line including titles
-o to select a different output ...
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LilyPond - change tuplet bracket to a small bow
I have a Cello piece from Sebastian Lee, that uses quite a lot of tuplets.
My snippet with the default LilyPond setting looks like this:
this looks pretty nice, the problem is that a beginner could ...
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How to express in sheet music that pedals and dynamics are "on" the performer
I transcribe music into sheet music. In a piece of music I am working on it is imperative that the performer him/herselves decides how he/she uses piano pedals and dynamics (the music must be '...
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Vertical space between stanzas
I have some songs with several stanzas. I would like to control the vertical space between the first and second stanza and the second and third stanza, .... individually.
How is that possible by ...
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How to disable or limit compression of over-full pages in Lilypond?
Sometimes lilypond tries to use less pages for more music, which is not always wanted. This can be easily fixed by manually adding \pageBreak , but sometimes an automatic solution is needed.
When ...
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How to make position/barre markers in lilypond?
I've recently started experimenting with LilyPond (Version 2.18.2 in case it matters). I've been fairly successful in creating basic scores, but I cannot figure how to properly make position/barre ...
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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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Localization in scores
Is there some way to make localization (translate to other languages) an easier task when digitally making scores?
Currently, I have two options:
write a page before the score with all the ...
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Lilypond spacing between lyrics and next system
I’m trying to improve the legibility of my scores by increasing the basic-distance between systems. There needs to be some whitespace between the last verse and the next system below.
Here's what I’...
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LilyPond - Repeat with Partial Measure at the End
This demonstrates the problem:
\relative c' {
c4 d e f
d e
\repeat volta 2 {
f g
a, b c d
}
\alternative {
{
e2
}
{
...
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LilyPond tie doesn't work as expecting with two voices
I want to connect two b2., but the output connected the g. How to make this work?
An explanation of this issue will be more grateful.
\version "2.18.2"
{
\clef bass
\time 3/4
<<
{ \...
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example song with lyrics and instrumental introduction?
I really need help for how to create a song in lilypond that has both instrumental portions and verse / chorus portions. Like a real-world practical song. I want to be able to create something like ...
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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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Lilypond generated with MuseScore does not fit the width of the page in XeTeX doc
I am using MuseScore 1.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 to write my scores. Then I save them as LilyPond files, and include them in my tex document using \lilypondfile, like this:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\...
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