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1.1.18 BreathingEvent

A short span of silence that shortens the previous note.

Syntax: note\breathe

Event classes: breathing-event, music-event and StreamEvent.

Accepted by: Breathing_sign_engraver and Note_performer.

Properties:

midi-length (procedure):

breathe::midi-length

Function to determine how long to play a note in MIDI. It should take a moment (the written length of the note) and a context, and return a moment (the length to play the note).

name (symbol):

'BreathingEvent

Name of this music object.

types (list):

'(event breathing-event)

The types of this music object; determines by what engraver this music expression is processed.