Sprechgesang

[Massimiliano Viel]

Hello everybody,

I would like to use Schoenberg’s original symbol for sprechgesang… Specifically, the x on the stem you find in the score of Pierrot Lunaire.

I found a snippet in the forum, which is:

sp = { \override Voice.Stem #'stencil = 

         #(lambda (grob) 

           (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge 

             (ly:stem::print grob) 1 (ly:grob-property grob 'direction) 

             (ly:text-interface::print grob) -3 0)) 

       \override Voice.Stem #'text = \markup { 

             \hspace #-1.075 \teeny \musicglyph #"noteheads.s2cross" 

        } 

}  

But…it doesn’t seem to work. 

I receive the following message of error:

Wrong number of arguments to ly:stencil-combine-at-edge

Why is that? As far as I can understand the number of arguments is fine! But I am still a noob in Lilypond, so…

Thank you for all the help!

Massimiliano