Re: Articulations in Separate Voice

[Gregory Hollands]

Valentin,

Your solution to insert articulations simultaneouse with the music is brilliant and simple.

\new Voice << \music \articulations >>

Using tags is too complicated for my purposes. My intention is to turn on/off all articulations of a certain type. I don't need the granularity provided by \KeepWithTag

Thanks,

Greg

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:09 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Greg,

First of all you should note that there is no reason to have the articulations
in a different Voice. As long as you manually create a Voice by \new Voice
(instead of relying on implicit creation) parallel music will in fact be
merged.

So by doing
\new Voice << \music \articulations >>
You get a behaviour as if you’d apply the articulations directly to the notes
(this can also be really useful for writing music with many chords of more or
less fixed number of notes, as instead of doing <...> for each chord we can do
<< { top notes } { middle notes } { bottom notes } >>).

Then about your other questions: For simply turning on/off articulations using
tags on the articulations would also work. I.e. you can do something like in
the appended file.

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Freitag, 7. Jänner 2022, 19:38:54 CET schrieb Gregory Hollands:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a separate voice to indicate articulations (bowing directions in
> this example), but occasionally the articulations collide with the note
> stems (as seen in bar 2 of the snippet below).
>
> My goal is to be able to turn articulations on and off easily, especially
> for different versions of the same score.
>
> Questions
> 1. Is this the best way to separate articulations from the melody?
> 2. Is there a better way to turn articulations on and off?
> 3. How do I avoid collisions between the articulations and the note stems?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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> \version "2.22"
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> Chords = \chords {
>    \set chordChanges = ##t
>    c1 c1 f2 g2 c1
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> Music = \relative c' {
>    e8 dis e g ~ g4 e
>    g8 a g c ~ c8 b c d
>    e d c b c d4 c8 ~
>    c2. r4
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> Bowing = \relative c' {
>    s8\downbow s8 s8 s8\upbow ~ s4 s4\downbow
>    s8\downbow s8 s8 s8\upbow ~ s8 s8\upbow s8 s8
>    s8\downbow s8 s8 s8 s8\downbow s4\upbow s8\upbow ~
>    s2. s4
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>   \Chords
>   \new Staff <<
>     \new Voice { \Bowing }
>     \new Voice { \Music }
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