lilypond Questions

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I've been trying to load a MusicXML file, edit it (removing several parts), and create a PDF sheet document + midi/mp3, all of this using Python. I've first looked at music21, that would load my M...
Truitt asked 5/4, 2014 at 16:29

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I am trying to use MuseScore 3 as some sort of editor for small music snippets e.g. nursery rhymes opened from MusicXML files. However my attempts to use the Frescobaldi Python library python-ly se...
Stichometry asked 27/1, 2022 at 20:18

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Currently I write lilypond code that looks like this: \version "2.14.2" P = #parenthesize \relative c, { \clef bass <c \P c'> <e \P e'> <g \P g'>2 <c, \P c'>4 <d \P...
Attentive asked 19/10, 2013 at 8:30

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I'm working to improve upon an excellent sheet I found of Debussy's Deuxième Arabesque on the freely available Mutopia Project. In particular, I'm interested in fitting the music on fewer pages bu...
Constellation asked 4/4, 2017 at 18:39

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Is there a way in LilyPond to simply list the lyrics corresponding to additional verses after the end of the music, with one paragraph per verse? (N.B. This exact question has been asked before, i...
Pythagoras asked 16/1, 2016 at 13:35

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In my hymn, I need to start the first measure halfway through. It has a time of 3/4, but I have to insert two empty, non-showing eighth notes. How do I do that? I've used o4 o4 c8[ d] below for th...
Anemochore asked 6/6, 2015 at 2:58

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According to Lilypond's documentation, you can choose to only have chords displayed when they change. I cannot get this behaviour. Here is the snippet: \new ChordNames { \chordmode { d1:7 d1:7...
Benjie asked 5/4, 2015 at 22:45

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problem I'm using LilyPond to typeset sheet music for a church choir to perform. Depending on who is available on any given week, songs will be played in various keys. We have an amazing pianist w...
Obliquity asked 28/4, 2009 at 21:10

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I have this as a sample notation example. How would I specify to have exactly 4 measures per line, throughout the whole piece. I searched the whole documentation and did not find such a simple feat...
Theocentric asked 31/3, 2014 at 23:11

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I compile a large song book, and for that I would like to have many local definitions of functions, that will, in the end, be in an \include d file, but that makes no difference here. For this, I n...
Wain asked 31/12, 2013 at 13:20

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In lilypond, I often find myself writing things like this \version "2.14.2" { r2 c2 | gis'8 gis gis gis gis gis gis gis | } or this \version "2.14.2" { \time 3/4 \clef bass \relative es, { ...
Blumenfeld asked 16/10, 2013 at 5:46

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My effort to create a document with six incipits from different pieces is running into a couple of problems. Can anyone help? I am pasting my code below (I've reduced the example somewhat for the...
Andrel asked 16/9, 2013 at 0:11

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In LilyPond, there is a distinction between specifying \key c \major and leaving the key blank. In the former case, transposing instruments will change the key signature accordingly, while in the l...
Slap asked 27/8, 2013 at 22:12

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Is there something that can render Lilypond content to an image, such as mathjax? Also, in my mind it would be nice to open a Stack Exchange forum about music. Such a thing would bring nice ...
Unkenned asked 14/1, 2013 at 12:37

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In Lilypond I can change the color of one type of object with a line like \override Staff.Clef #'color = #(rgb-color 0.4 0.5 0.6) I'd like to have everything in the same (non-default) color, but...
Gunslinger asked 20/3, 2011 at 17:57

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I'm hoping to Lilypond something not at all uncommon in pop sheet music but missing from the snippet repository and eluding my search phrases. It's basically an inline block of coda set apart from ...
Belvabelvedere asked 21/11, 2011 at 14:48
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