Re: Flute Accompaniment

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-06-26 11:14, Br. Gabriel-Marie | SSPX wrote:
> In my piece I have a piano staff with the music on the bottom staff.
> In the upper staff it is supposed to be notes for recorder or flute
> accompaniment.  In the original the flute notes and its staff are all
> a bit smaller in size.  What do you call those smaller notes?  I want
> to make the entire top staff + the notes just smaller so it is obvious
> to the singers not to try and sing the accompaniment.  How do I do
> that?

Hello,

Try adding the following \with block to your Staff:

\new Staff \with {
  fontSize = #-3
  \override StaffSymbol.staff-space = #(magstep -3)
  \override StaffSymbol.thickness = #(magstep -3)
} {
   % Music follows here
}

it's been a while since I used LilyPond so this knowledge might be a bit 
out of date... I think in the development version there's a new way to 
do this.


Nathan