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LilyPond snippets v2.25.21 (development-branch).
Pitches
Adding ambitus per voice
Adding an ottava marking to a single voice
Aiken head thin variant noteheads
Altering the length of beamed stems
Ambitus
Ambitus after key signature
Ambitus with multiple voices
Applying note head styles depending on the step of the scale
Automatically changing the stem direction of the middle note based on the melody
Changing ottava text
Changing the ambitus gap
Changing the interval of lines on the stave
Clefs can be transposed by arbitrary amounts
Coloring notes depending on their pitch
Creating a sequence of notes on various pitches
Creating custom key signatures
Direction of merged ’fa’ shape note heads
Force a cancellation natural before accidentals
Forcing a clef symbol to be displayed
Generating random notes
Hiding accidentals on tied notes at the start of a new system
Keep change clefs full sized
Makam example
Modifying the Ottava spanner slope
Non-traditional key signatures
Numbers as easy note heads
Orchestra, choir and piano template
Preventing extra naturals from being automatically added
Preventing natural signs from being printed when the key signature changes
Quoting another voice with transposition
Separating key cancellations from key signature changes
Transposing pitches with minimum accidentals ("Smart" transpose)
Turkish Makam example
Tweaking clef properties
Using autochange with more than one voice
Rhythms
Adding beams, slurs, ties etc. when using tuplet and non-tuplet rhythms
Adding drum parts
Adjusting grace note spacing
Aligning bar numbers
Alternative breve notes
Appoggiatura or grace note before a bar line
Automatic beam subdivisions
Automatically change durations
Beam endings in Score context
Beams across line breaks
Changing beam knee gap
Changing form of multi-measure rests
Changing the number of augmentation dots per note
Changing the tempo without a metronome mark
Changing the tuplet number
Changing time signatures inside a polymetric section using \scaleDurations
Chant or psalms notation
Compound time signatures
Conducting signs, measure grouping signs
Consistently left-aligned bar numbers
Controlling tuplet bracket visibility
Cow and ride bell example
Creating metronome marks in markup mode
Engraving ties manually
Engraving tremolos with floating beams
Entering several tuplets using only one \tuplet command
Flat flags and beam nibs
Forcing rehearsal marks to start from a given letter or number
Generating custom flags
Guitar strum rhythms
Heavily customized polymetric time signatures
High and Low woodblock example
Making an object invisible with the ’transparent property
Making slurs with complex dash structure
Manually controlling beam positions
Merging multi-measure rests in a polyphonic part
Modifying tuplet bracket length
Moving dotted notes in polyphony
Multi-measure rest length control
Multi-measure rest markup
Non-default tuplet numbers
Numbering single measure rests
Partcombine and \autoBeamOff
Percussion example
Permitting line breaks within beamed tuplets
Positioning grace note beams at the height of normal note beams
Positioning grace notes with floating space
Positioning multi-measure rests
Positioning opposing fermatas on a bar line
Preventing final mark from removing final tuplet
Printing bar numbers at regular intervals
Printing bar numbers for broken measures
Printing bar numbers inside boxes or circles
Printing bar numbers using modulo-bar-number-visible
Printing bar numbers with changing regular intervals
Printing metronome and rehearsal marks below the staff
Printing music with different time signatures
Printing the bar number for the first measure
Printing tuplet brackets on the note head side
Redefining grace note global defaults
Removing bar numbers from a score
Removing connecting bar lines on StaffGroup, PianoStaff, or GrandStaff
Rest styles
Reverting default beam endings
Rhythmic slashes
Skips in lyric mode
Skips in lyric mode (2)
Stemlets
Strict beat beaming
Subdividing beams
Tam-tam example
Tambourine example
Three-sided box
Time signature in brackets
Time signature in parentheses
Time signature printing only the numerator as a number (instead of the fraction)
Tweaking grace layout within music
User defined time signatures
Using alternative flag styles
Using grace note slashes with normal heads
Using ties with arpeggios
Expressive marks
Adding beams, slurs, ties etc. when using tuplet and non-tuplet rhythms
Adding parentheses around an expressive mark or chordal note
Adding timing marks to long glissandi
Adjusting slur positions vertically
Adjusting the shape of falls and doits
Aligning the ends of hairpins to NoteColumn directions
Alternative breve notes
Asymmetric slurs
Breathing signs
Broken Crescendo Hairpin
Caesura ("railtracks") with fermata
Center text below hairpin dynamics
Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics
Changing the appearance of a slur from solid to dotted or dashed
Changing the breath mark symbol
Changing the number of augmentation dots per note
Combining dynamics with markup texts
Contemporary glissando
Controlling spanner visibility after a line break
Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts
Creating a delayed turn
Creating arpeggios across notes in different voices
Creating cross-staff arpeggios in a piano staff
Creating cross-staff arpeggios in other contexts
Creating double-digit fingerings
Creating "real" parenthesized dynamics
Creating slurs across voices
Creating text spanners
Dynamics custom text spanner postfix
Dynamics text spanner postfix
Glissandi can skip grobs
Hairpins with different line styles
Hiding the extender line for text dynamics
Horizontally aligning custom dynamics (e.g. "sempre pp", "piu f", "subito p")
Inserting a caesura
Laissez vibrer ties
Line arrows
Making slurs with complex dash structure
Modifying default values for articulation shorthand notation
Moving slur positions vertically
Moving the ends of hairpins
Positioning arpeggios
Positioning text markups inside slurs
Printing hairpins in various styles
Printing hairpins using al niente notation
Printing metronome and rehearsal marks below the staff
Setting hairpin behavior at bar lines
Setting the minimum length of hairpins
Showing the same articulation above and below a note or chord
Snap-pizzicato or Bartok pizzicato
Using a tick as the breath mark symbol
Using arpeggioBracket to make divisi more visible
Using double slurs for legato chords
Using the whiteout property
Vertical line as a baroque articulation mark
Vertically aligning dynamics across multiple notes
Repeats
Adding volta brackets to additional staves
Centered measure numbers
Changing the default bar lines
Controlling the appearance of tremolo slashes
Cross-staff tremolos
Engraving tremolos with floating beams
Isolated percent repeats
Measure counter
Numbering groups of measures
Percent repeat count visibility
Percent repeat counter
Positioning segno and coda (with line break)
Setting the double repeat default for volte
Shortening volta brackets
Volta below chords
Volta multi staff
Volta text markup using repeatCommands
Simultaneous notes
Additional voices to avoid collisions
Changing \partCombine texts
Changing a single note’s size in a chord
Clusters
Combining two parts on the same staff
Displaying complex chords
Forcing horizontal shift of notes
Making an object invisible with the ’transparent property
Moving dotted notes in polyphony
Suppressing warnings for clashing note columns
Two \partCombine pairs on one staff
Staff notation
Adding ambitus per voice
Adding an extra staff
Adding an extra staff at a line break
Adding indicators to staves which get split after a break
Adding orchestral cues to a vocal score
Adding timing marks to long glissandi
Alternative bar numbering
Ambitus after key signature
Centered measure numbers
Changing the default bar lines
Changing the number of lines in a staff
Changing the staff size
Creating blank staves
Creating custom key signatures
Creating double-digit fingerings
Cross-staff stems
Display bracket with only one staff in a system
Extending a TrillSpanner
Extending glissandi across repeats
Flat Ties
Forcing measure width to adapt to MetronomeMark’s width
Glissandi can skip grobs
Incipit
Inserting score fragments above a staff, as markups
Let TabStaff print the topmost string at bottom
Letter tablature formatting
Making glissandi breakable
Making some staff lines thicker than the others
Measure counter
Mensurstriche layout (bar lines between the staves)
Modifying the Ottava spanner slope
Nesting staves
Non-traditional key signatures
Numbering groups of measures
Orchestra, choir and piano template
Print ChordNames with same root and different bass as slash and bass-note
Putting lyrics inside the staff
Quoting another voice
Quoting another voice with transposition
Removing brace on first line of piano score
Removing the first empty line
Setting system separators
Tick bar lines
Time signature in brackets
Time signature in parentheses
Tweaking clef properties
Two \partCombine pairs on one staff
Use square bracket at the start of a staff group
Using autochange with more than one voice
Using marklines in a Frenched score
Vertically aligned StaffGroups without connecting SystemStartBar
Volta below chords
Volta multi staff
Editorial annotations
Adding fingerings to a score
Adding links to objects
Adding markups in a tablature
Allowing fingerings to be printed inside the staff
Alternative bar numbering
Analysis brackets above the staff
Analysis brackets with labels
Applying note head styles depending on the step of the scale
Blanking staff lines using the \whiteout command
Changing a single note’s size in a chord
Changing the appearance of a slur from solid to dotted or dashed
Coloring notes depending on their pitch
Controlling the placement of chord fingerings
Creating a delayed turn
Creating blank staves
Creating double-digit fingerings
Default direction of stems on the center line of the staff
Different font size settings for instrumentName and shortInstrumentName
Drawing boxes around grobs
Drawing circles around note heads
Drawing circles around various objects
Embedding native PostScript in a \markup block
Grid lines: changing their appearance
Grid lines: emphasizing rhythms and notes synchronization
Hammer on and pull off
Hammer on and pull off using chords
Hammer on and pull off using voices
Making some staff lines thicker than the others
Marking notes of spoken parts with a cross on the stem (Sprechstimme)
Measure counter
Measure spanner
Numbering groups of measures
Positioning fingering indications precisely
Positioning text markups inside slurs
Printing text from right to left
String number extender lines
Using PostScript to generate special note head shapes
Using the whiteout property
Text
[OBSOLETE] Adding a QR code
Adding markups in a tablature
Adding the current date to a score
Adjusting lyrics vertical spacing
Aligning and centering instrument names
Aligning syllables with melisma
Blanking staff lines using the \whiteout command
Center text below hairpin dynamics
Changing ottava text
Changing the default text font family
Combining dynamics with markup texts
Combining two parts on the same staff
Creating "real" parenthesized dynamics
Creating text spanners
Demonstrating all headers
Embedding native PostScript in a \markup block
Formatting lyrics syllables
How to put ties between syllables in lyrics
Lyrics alignment
Markup list
Multi-measure rest markup
Of the ubiquity of markup objects
Outputting the version number
Piano template with centered lyrics
Printing bar numbers with changing regular intervals
Printing marks on every staff
Printing text from right to left
Putting lyrics inside the staff
Stand-alone two-column markup
String number extender lines
Three-sided box
UTF-8
Vocal ensemble template with lyrics aligned below and above the staves
Volta text markup using repeatCommands
Vocal music
Adding ambitus per voice
Adding indicators to staves which get split after a break
Adding orchestral cues to a vocal score
Adjusting lyrics vertical spacing
Aligning syllables with melisma
Ambitus
Ambitus after key signature
Ambitus with multiple voices
Ancient notation template – modern transcription of gregorian music
Anglican psalm template
Arranging separate lyrics on a single line
Changing stanza fonts
Chant or psalms notation
Forcing hyphens to be shown
Formatting lyrics syllables
How to put ties between syllables in lyrics
Hymn template
Lyrics alignment
Marking notes of spoken parts with a cross on the stem (Sprechstimme)
Obtaining 2.12 lyrics spacing in newer versions
Orchestra, choir and piano template
Piano template with melody and lyrics
Putting lyrics inside the staff
SATB Choir template - four staves
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, and chords
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, chords and frets
Single staff template with notes and lyrics
Skips in lyric mode
Skips in lyric mode (2)
Using arpeggioBracket to make divisi more visible
Using tags to produce mensural and modern music from the same source
Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics
Vertically centered common lyrics
Vocal ensemble template
Vocal ensemble template with automatic piano reduction
Vocal ensemble template with lyrics aligned below and above the staves
Vocal ensemble template with verse and refrain
Chords
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
Adding bar lines to ChordNames context
Adjusting figured bass alteration glyphs
Changing chord separator
Changing the chord names to German or semi-German notation
Changing the positions of figured bass alterations
Chord name exceptions
chord name major7
Chord names alternative
Chords with stretched fingering for FretBoards and TabVoice
Clusters
Controlling the placement of chord fingerings
Cross-staff chords - beaming problems workaround
Customizing the chord grid style
Customizing the no-chord symbol
Displaying complex chords
Manually break figured bass extenders for only some numbers
Print ChordNames with same root and different bass as slash and bass-note
Showing chords at changes
Simple lead sheet
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, and chords
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, chords and frets
Single staff template with notes and chords
Vertically centering paired figured bass extenders
Volta below chords
Keyboards
Accordion-discant symbols
Accordion register symbols
Changing the text for sustain markings
Clusters
Controlling the placement of chord fingerings
Creating slurs across voices
Cross-staff chords - beaming problems workaround
Cross-staff tremolos
Fine-tuning pedal brackets
Indicating cross-staff chords with arpeggio bracket
Jazz combo template
Laissez vibrer ties
Piano template (simple)
Piano template with centered lyrics
Piano template with melody and lyrics
Removing brace on first line of piano score
Using autochange with more than one voice
Vocal ensemble template with automatic piano reduction
Percussion
Adding drum parts
Cow and ride bell example
Heavily customized polymetric time signatures
High and Low woodblock example
Jazz combo template
Percussion beaters
Percussion example
Printing music with different time signatures
Tam-tam example
Tambourine example
Fretted strings
Adding fingerings to a score
Adding fingerings to tablatures
Adding markups in a tablature
Allowing fingerings to be printed inside the staff
Automatic Fretboards Barre
Changing fret orientations
Chord glissando in tablature
ChordChanges for FretBoards
Chords with stretched fingering for FretBoards and TabVoice
Controlling the placement of chord fingerings
Customizing fretboard fret diagrams
Customizing markup fret diagrams
Defining predefined fretboards for other instruments
Faking a hammer in tablatures
Fingerings, string indications, and right-hand fingerings
Flamenco notation
Fret diagrams explained and developed
Fretboards alternate tables
Fretted-string harmonics in tablature
Guitar slides
Guitar strum rhythms
Hammer on and pull off
Hammer on and pull off using chords
Hammer on and pull off using voices
How to change fret diagram position
Jazz combo template
Laissez vibrer ties
Let TabStaff print the topmost string at bottom
Letter tablature formatting
Open string harmonics in tablature
Placement of right-hand fingerings
Polyphony in tablature
Slides in tablature
Stem and beam behavior in tablature
String number extender lines
Unfretted strings
Creating slurs across voices
Dotted harmonics
Snap-pizzicato or Bartok pizzicato
String quartet template (simple)
String quartet template with separate parts
Winds
Changing the size of woodwind diagrams
Fingering symbols for wind instruments
Flute slap notation
Graphical and text woodwind diagrams
Recorder fingering chart
Woodwind diagrams key lists
Woodwind diagrams listing
Ancient notation
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
Ancient fonts
Ancient notation template – modern transcription of gregorian music
Ancient time signatures
Chant or psalms notation
Custodes
Incipit
Mensurstriche layout (bar lines between the staves)
Rest styles
Using tags to produce mensural and modern music from the same source
Vertical line as a baroque articulation mark
World music
Arabic improvisation
Makam example
Printing text from right to left
Turkish Makam example
Contexts and engravers
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
Adding an extra staff
Adding an extra staff at a line break
Automatically changing the stem direction of the middle note based on the melody
Centered measure numbers
Changing MIDI output to one channel per voice
Changing time signatures inside a polymetric section using \scaleDurations
Chant or psalms notation
Creating blank staves
Creating custom key signatures
Cross-staff stems
Defining an engraver in Scheme: ambitus engraver
Displaying a whole GrandStaff system if only one of its staves is alive
Engravers one-by-one
Mensurstriche layout (bar lines between the staves)
Nesting staves
Numbering groups of measures
Print ChordNames with same root and different bass as slash and bass-note
Removing bar numbers from a score
Use square bracket at the start of a staff group
Using marklines in a Frenched score
Vocal ensemble template with lyrics aligned below and above the staves
Vocal ensemble template with verse and refrain
Tweaks and overrides
Adding an ottava marking to a single voice
Adding links to objects
Adding markups in a tablature
Adding timing marks to long glissandi
Adjusting grace note spacing
Adjusting lyrics vertical spacing
Adjusting slur positions vertically
Altering the length of beamed stems
Alternative bar numbering
Analysis brackets above the staff
Analysis brackets with labels
Asymmetric slurs
Breaking vertical alignment of dynamics and textscripts
Caesura ("railtracks") with fermata
Changing a single note’s size in a chord
Changing beam thickness and spacing
Changing form of multi-measure rests
Changing properties for individual grobs
Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics
Changing the default text font family
Changing the staff size
Changing the tempo without a metronome mark
Changing the text for sustain markings
Controlling spanner visibility after a line break
Controlling the appearance of tremolo slashes
Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts
Controlling tuplet bracket visibility
Creating a delayed turn
Creating custom key signatures
Creating double-digit fingerings
Creating text spanners
Cross-staff chords - beaming problems workaround
Cross-staff stems
Custodes
Customizing fretboard fret diagrams
Customizing markup fret diagrams
Display bracket with only one staff in a system
Displaying grob ancestry
Dotted harmonics
Drawing boxes around grobs
Drawing circles around various objects
Dynamics custom text spanner postfix
Dynamics text spanner postfix
Extending a TrillSpanner
Extending glissandi across repeats
Fine-tuning pedal brackets
Flat Ties
Force a cancellation natural before accidentals
Forcing horizontal shift of notes
Fret diagrams explained and developed
Generating custom flags
Glissandi can skip grobs
Hairpins with different line styles
Horizontally aligning custom dynamics (e.g. "sempre pp", "piu f", "subito p")
How to change fret diagram position
Inserting a caesura
Keep change clefs full sized
Line arrows
Making an object invisible with the ’transparent property
Making glissandi breakable
Manually controlling beam positions
Measure-centered bar numbers
Mensurstriche layout (bar lines between the staves)
Modifying the Ottava spanner slope
Moving dotted notes in polyphony
Moving slur positions vertically
Nesting staves
Overriding articulations by type
Percent repeat count visibility
Positioning arpeggios
Positioning multi-measure rests
Positioning text markups inside slurs
Printing bar numbers inside boxes or circles
Printing metronome and rehearsal marks below the staff
Printing note names with and without an octave marker
Printing tuplet brackets on the note head side
Proportional strict notespacing
Removing brace on first line of piano score
Removing connecting bar lines on StaffGroup, PianoStaff, or GrandStaff
Removing the first empty line
Rest styles
Rhythmic slashes
Separating key cancellations from key signature changes
Setting hairpin behavior at bar lines
Setting system separators
Showing the same articulation above and below a note or chord
String number extender lines
Suppressing warnings for clashing note columns
Time signature in brackets
Time signature in parentheses
Time signature printing only the numerator as a number (instead of the fraction)
Tuplet bracket and change staff
Tweaking clef properties
Tweaking grace layout within music
Using alternative flag styles
Using ly:grob-object to access grobs with \tweak
Using PostScript to generate special note head shapes
Using the \tweak command to tweak individual grobs
Vertically aligned dynamics and textscripts
Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics
Vertically centering paired figured bass extenders
Paper and layout
Aligning and centering instrument names
Arranging separate lyrics on a single line
Book parts
Changing the staff size
Clip systems
Creating blank staves
Demonstrating all headers
Setting system separators
Table of contents
Vertically aligned StaffGroups without connecting SystemStartBar
Titles
Adding the current date to a score
Aligning and centering instrument names
Demonstrating all headers
Outputting the version number
Spacing
Adjusting lyrics vertical spacing
Allowing fingerings to be printed inside the staff
Breaking vertical alignment of dynamics and textscripts
Page label
Proportional strict notespacing
Vertically aligned dynamics and textscripts
Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics
MIDI
Changing MIDI output to one channel per voice
Changing the tempo without a metronome mark
Creating custom dynamics in MIDI output
Demo MidiInstruments
Replacing default MIDI instrument equalization
Templates
Ancient notation template – modern transcription of gregorian music
Anglican psalm template
Hymn template
Jazz combo template
Orchestra, choir and piano template
Piano template (simple)
Piano template with centered lyrics
Piano template with melody and lyrics
SATB Choir template - four staves
Score for diatonic accordion
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, and chords
Single staff template with notes, lyrics, chords and frets
Single staff template with notes and chords
Single staff template with notes and lyrics
Single staff template with only notes
String quartet template (simple)
String quartet template with separate parts
Vocal ensemble template
Vocal ensemble template with automatic piano reduction
Vocal ensemble template with lyrics aligned below and above the staves
Vocal ensemble template with verse and refrain