Questions tagged [engraving]
For questions about the engraving of scores and how to achieve intended notational effects. Questions regarding the meaning of specific notation are best served with the notation tag. For questions discussing a particular engraving software, the software should also be tagged.
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How to indicate divisi for an entire section?
I have this section below and I want to indicate that unison notes need to be played by the entire section, while the cords should be divisi. Is there a cleaner way to indicate this?
The effect would ...
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How to choose between 3/4 and 6/8 time?
I am currently transcribing a piece of music for piano, and I have the following passage in 3/4 time:
I find that 3/4 time allows the half note in the RH to fall on the second beat, but the drawback ...
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Do I need to indicate 'solo' for wind/brass instruments in shared staff?
In an orchestral score, do I need to indicate 'solo' for wind/brass instruments passages in a shared staff?
In the below example, I have a passage that I want to be played by one horn (solo), but the ...
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How do I change all fonts to sans-serif in Lilypond?
I'm sure this information is available somewhere, but all I can find is how to change the font for specific parts, not the entire document. Can you help me?
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Is it correct to put a section separator (double thin lines) in the middle of a measure?
I like to denote different sections of a piece by double thin bar lines. I use Lilypond, and there is a command there, \section that produces such lines.
Question: if a new section of a piece starts ...
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Place "Opus" instead of Instrument Name?
I'm trying to place the opus to the left of a Staff (which is normally the place of the instrument name), like this:
Is there a proper way to place opus in replacement of instrumentName? Something ...
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Fitting music in a single, long system for scrolling in Lilypond
Suppose I have a piece of music in Lilypond (three staves per system) and I want to lay it out so that all the piece fits into a single, continuous system of arbitrary length, with no breaks.
How ...
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How to reduce the width of a staff containing only a rest in LilyPond
Consider this example :
{
#(set-global-staff-size 25)
%\tempo Allegro
\time 4/4
a'4 b' c'' d''
R1
a'4 b' c'' d''
R1
a'4 b' c'' d''
R1
a'4 b' c'' d''
R1
a'4 b' c'' d''
}
Is there a way to impose a ...
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How to add left/right hand fingering bracket to specific note group
How can I replicate this LH left hand fingering annotation with Lilypond? The bracket around the lower three notes is the troublesome part. I've tried several approaches to no avail.
The original,
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Can Lilypond typeset French beaming?
Consider following example:
{
g'16 d'' e'' d''
}
Is there a way to obtain the so-called French beaming? Here, vertical stems are not shown in between the beams (examples from here).
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How to typeset an excerpt in Lilypond (longer phrase slur and text)?
I want to typeset following "excerpt" from a longer melody:
I currently have
{
\time C
(c''8 d'' e'' d'' c'' b' a' c''_" etc.")
}
How could I modify it to obtain the following?
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Sheet Music Software, w/ Measures/Bars per System Setting
For many years I was an "Encore" user, and alas, Encore is no longer supported. (Rumors of a new version persist, but... we'll see....) I used it to create piano sheet music.
Encore allowed ...
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How do I place fingering instructions under a string's number?
I'm engraving a guitar score and I would like to notate the harmonic frets under the string number, as it is done in this example:
To do this, I'm using \string and -fingering notation as it appears ...
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Markups of Voice Two appearing on top of Voice One
I'm engraving a guitar score and I've made a simple shortcut for drawing a circle everytime a harmonic is played, as I've seen in some music:
hc = \markup \left-align { \draw-circle #0.3 #0.15 ##f }
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Slur shape change
Using LilyPond, I am re-typesetting a score which uses an unusual symbol. Essentially, it is a slur between two adjacent notes, but the slur is mirror-imaged around its longest dimension. ...
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