Re: new user--Glissando question

[Daniel Rosen]

It's less a question of following rules, and more about making things easier 
for everyone involved--often by stripping stuff away I'm able to isolate and 
fix issues myself. :)

DR

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On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:28 PM, "Bill Restemeyer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks much for the valuable tips.  I was able to adapt your method for other 
> parts of the piece also.
> 
> I promise to follow the rules of Tiny Examples if I need to submit another 
> snippet. :-)
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote:
> 
>> Since you never have more than two voices of music at once, there's no need 
>> for you to have more than one voice within a Staff context. Just put all the 
>> music for the each hand in its respective Staff context and use the \change 
>> function to switch staves:
>> 
>> %%% start
>> \header{
>> title = "glissando example"
>> poet =  \markup \harp-pedal #"v-^|v--v"
>> }
>> 
>> \relative c {
>> \new PianoStaff <<
>>   \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = \markup \italic #"HARP  "
>>   \new Staff = "right" { 
>>     \key f \major 
>>     e'''8 d c a-4( f) c f,4 | \voiceOne
>>     \change Staff = "left" s4 c,\glissando^"R" \once \hideNotes g''
>>     c,\glissando \change Staff = "right" | \oneVoice
>>     g''4\glissando bes,,\glissando g''\glissando bes,,\glissando |
>>   } 
>>   \new Staff = "left" {
>>     \key f \major
>>     \clef bass
>>     f,4\glissando bes'\glissando f,4\glissando bes' \glissando | \voiceTwo
>>     f,\glissando_"L" \once \hideNotes c''
>>     f,\glissando \once \hideNotes c'' |
>>     s1      
>>   }
>>>> 
>> }
>> 
>> \version "2.16.1"
>> 
>> %%% end
>> 
>> In the future, debugging is a lot easier when you use tiny examples 
>> (http://www.lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html). :) 
>> 
>> DR
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Restemeyer [mailto:address@hidden 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:46 AM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: new user--Glissando question
>> 
>> Hello!  I'm trying to use LilyPond to score music for Harp and have a 
>> question about continuous glissandos.  There are measures in this piece 
>> (4/4) where each quarter note is the beginning and the end of a glissando 
>> (well, except the first).  After doing this for a while, this pattern stops 
>> and each quarter note begins a "contemporary" glissando (no ending note).  
>> My problem is conecting these two with another glissando.  To create the 
>> "contemporary" glissando, I break into two voices, so the question is how to 
>> connect the last Bb quarter note to the following F quarter note (all in the 
>> left hand).
>> 
>> \header{
>> title = "glissando example"
>> poet =  \markup \harp-pedal #"v-^|v--v"
>> }
>> 
>> \relative c {
>> \new PianoStaff <<
>> \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = \markup \italic #"HARP  "
>> \new Staff = "right" { \key f \major 
>> \override Glissando #'breakable = ##t
>> \override Glissando #'after-line-breaking = ##t
>> 
>> e'''8 d c a-4( f) c f,4 | s1 |
>>   g'4\glissando bes,,\glissando g''\glissando bes,,\glissando |
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> \new Staff = "left" { \key f \major
>>   \clef bass
>> 
>> \override Glissando #'breakable = ##t
>> \override Glissando #'after-line-breaking = ##t
>> 
>> f,4\glissando bes'\glissando f,4\glissando bes' %\glissando | 
>>   <<
>>    {s4 c,\glissando^"R" \hideNotes g'' \unHideNotes c,\glissando \change 
>> Staff = "right" \hideNotes g'' \unHideNotes \change Staff = "left" }
>>     \\
>>    { f,,,\glissando_"L" \hideNotes c'' \unHideNotes f,\glissando \hideNotes 
>> c''\unHideNotes }
>>>> 
>>   s2. |
>> 
>> }
>>>> 
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> \version "2.16.1"  % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help you can give!
>> 
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