4.3.4 Ottava brackets

“Ottava” brackets introduce an extra transposition of an octave for the staff. They are created by invoking the function set-octavation:

     \relative c''' {
       a2 b
       #(set-octavation 1)
       a b
       #(set-octavation 0)
       a b }

Internally the set-octavation function sets the properties ottavation (eg. to "8va") and centralCPosition. The function also takes arguments -1 (for 8va bassa) and 2 (for 15ma).

OttavaSpanner (lilypond-internals).

Bugs

set-octavation will get confused when clef changes happen during an octavation bracket.

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