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Ancient notation 252
Ancient notation
These snippets illustrate Section “Ancient notation” in Notation Reference.
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
When writing a figured bass, here’s a way to specify if you want your figures to be placed
above or below the bass notes, by defining the BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction
property (exclusively in a Staff context). Choices are #UP (or #1), #CENTER (or #0) and #DOWN
(or #-1).
As you can see here, this property can be changed as many times as you wish. Use \once
\override if you don’t want the tweak to apply to the whole score.
bass = {
\clef bass
g4 b, c d
e d8 c d2
}
continuo = \figuremode {
4 8
\once \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #CENTER
8 4
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP
4
\set Staff.useBassFigureExtenders = ##t
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN
4. 8 4
}
\score {
>
}
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Ancient fonts
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Shown here are many (all?) of the symbols that are included in LilyPond’s support for ancient
notation.
upperStaff = \new VaticanaStaff = "upperStaff"