RE: Synchronize music of different length

[Richard Sabey]

Hi Urs.

In your example, if you lay the second version out as if the notes had twice the durations they actually have, then it looks nice:

\version "16.0"

firstVersion =

\relative e'' {

e2. e4 | g2. cis,4 |

}

secondVersion =

\scaleDurations #'(2 . 1)

\relative e'' {

e4~ e16[ fis] e[ fis] g4. cis,8 |

}

\score

{

<<

\new Staff \firstVersion

\new Staff \secondVersion

>>

}

(Note that I have corrected the beaming in the second version.)

That produces a nice result for your example. Is it what you want?

For other examples this method might be unsatisfactory. If you need to try a different method, you might like to try spacer rests ( s4 etc).

> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:51:55 +0200
> From: Urs Liska <address@hidden>
> To: LilyPond Users <address@hidden>
> Subject: Synchronize music of different length
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> Hi all,
>
> what would be an elegant way to synchronize a passage of music that is
> of different length in two staves?
>
> I need to make an example where the composer made a second version that
> compressed two bars into one. At the same time he modified the melody
> around common anchor notes
> I would like to typeset these measures in two staves so that the
> corresponding notes are aligned, ignoring the metric situation.
>
> One would be:
> (\time 4/4)
>
> \relative e'' {
> e2. e4 | g2. cis,4 |
> }
>
> The other one:
>
> \relative e'' {
> e4~ e16[ fis] e[ fis g4. cis,8 |
> }