Re: Free rhythm in part of a bar

[Christian Masser]

Hi Peter!

I don't know if that's the correct way to do it, but if you use \scaleDurations on the cadenza material it seems to work out for me:

   {
    c'4 4 4 4 |
    4 4 \scaleDurations 2/5 { 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 } |
   }

The '2/5'-part depends of course on the length of the material inside.

All the best

Christian

Am Fr., 12. Juni 2020 um 16:34 Uhr schrieb Peter Toye <lilypond@ptoye.com>:

I need to have part only of a bar notated with free rhythm. Also other staves need to be synchronised. I've tried using \cadenzaOn but then I get a barcheck problem and the next bar goes odd. I can't see anything about this in the snippets or manuals. A minimal example follows.

There seem to be two issues:

1) How do I get the desired result, which is one bar with the first 2 crotchets synchronised with the bass, and the rest unsynchronised?

2) This isn't in the example, but what if I want a free section within a bar, but synchronised accompaniment at the beginning and end of the bar (e.g. a chord on the final note of a cadenza).

\language "english"

\version "2.19.83"

\score {

 <<
   \new Staff {
   \time 4/4
   {
    c'4 4 4 4 |
    4 4 \cadenzaOn 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8  \bar "|" \cadenzaOff
    R1
   }
 }

 \new Staff {
  \time 4/4
  \clef "bass"
  {
    c1
    4 4 r2\fermata |
  }

 }

 >>

}
Thanks in advance,

Peter
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