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Bottom-level contexts – voices

Voice-level contexts initialize certain properties and start appropriate engravers. A bottom-level context is one without \defaultchild. While it is possible to let it accept/contain subcontexts, they can only be created and entered explicitly.

Voice ¶

Corresponds to a voice on a staff. This context handles the conversion of dynamic signs, stems, beams, super- and subscripts, slurs, ties, and rests.

You have to instantiate this explicitly if you require multiple voices on the same staff.

VaticanaVoice ¶

A kind of Voice for typesetting Gregorian chant in a notational style approximating Editio Vaticana.

MensuralVoice ¶

Same as Voice context, except that it is accommodated for typesetting a piece in mensural style.

PetrucciVoice ¶

A kind of Voice approximating the mensural typesetting of Ottaviano Petrucci’s Harmonices Musices Odhecaton (Venice, 1501).

KievanVoice ¶

Same as Voice context, except that it is accommodated for typesetting a piece in Kievan style.

GregorianTranscriptionVoice ¶

A voice for notating Gregorian chant in modern style.

Lyrics ¶

Corresponds to a voice with lyrics. Handles the printing of a single line of lyrics.

VaticanaLyrics ¶

Same as Lyrics context, except that it provides a hyphenation style (a single, flush-left hyphen between two syllables) as used in the notational style of Editio Vaticana.

GregorianTranscriptionLyrics ¶

A lyrics context for notating Gregorian chant in modern style.

DrumVoice ¶

A voice on a percussion staff.

FiguredBass ¶

The context in which BassFigure grobs are created from input entered in \figuremode mode.

TabVoice ¶

The voice context used within a TabStaff context. Usually left to be created implicitly.

CueVoice ¶

A voice context used to render notes of a reduced size, intended primarily for adding cue notes to a staff, see Formatting cue notes. Usually left to be created implicitly.

ChordNames ¶

Typesets chord names.

NoteNames ¶

Typesets note names.

NullVoice ¶

For aligning lyrics without printing notes.

Devnull ¶

Silently discard all musical information given to this context.

Dynamics ¶

Holds a single line of dynamics centered between the staves surrounding this context.

StandaloneRhythmVoice ¶

A Voice-level context for use by \markup \rhythm.

Bottom ¶

This is a generic bottom-level context, accepted by all intermediate-level contexts. It can be used for situations where the same music should appear, say, in a Staff and a TabStaff context.