On 3/1/2013 11:54 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote: > How do you deal with music where there is a lot of repetition of a group > of measures, but where the dynamics or other instructions (e.g. > pizz/arco) differs between repetitions?
Sorry, I think I didn't explain myself very well in the last email, and I also thought of a perhaps pretty good approach after sending my last mail. (The old "solve your problem as you tell others about it" shtick.) Consider typesetting the first 6 measures of Mars: http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d1/IMSLP27539-PMLP33488-Holst_Planets_VC.pdf [via IMSLP] One way to typeset that would be something like the following: motif = \relative c { \times 2/3 { g8 g g } g4 g g8 g g4 | } \relative c { \time 5/4 \clef bass \times 2/3 { g8\pp^"col legno" g g } g4 g g8 g g4 | \motif | \motif | \motif | \times 2/3 { g8\< g g } g4 g g8 g g4 | \times 2/3 { g8\> g g } g4 g g8 g g4\! | } In other words, I can use the \motif variable a lot of the time, but there are also a lot of measures where there is other stuff going on and so I "can't". I was curious to know what people did in such a situation. However, I just thought of a possible solution, which is to use another voice with spacer rests: motif = \relative c { \times 2/3 { g8 g g } g4 g g8 g g4 | } \relative c { \time 5/4 \clef bass << \motif s4\pp^"col legno" >> | \motif | \motif | \motif | << { \motif \motif } { s4\< s1 | s4\> s2. s4\! } >> } In some sense this just lets me to continue to use the \motif command so i don't have to keep doing "\times 2/3 blah blah blah" and just put the interesting things on the right *beat*. Is there any reason that this would be bad? (e.g. does the \pp still apply to the \motif voice when doing MIDI output?) Also, on a related question but not really Lilypond-specific: anyone know of any recommendations for when/how percent repeats should be used? Would you typeset that part with percent repeats for instance? Is it kosher to put things like a full-measure crescendo or an "arco" instruction that applies on the first beat of a measure on a measure with a percent repeat? Evan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
