LilyPond Snippets

Expressive marks 49
}
c2-\bendAfter #+5
c2-\bendAfter #-3
c2-\bendAfter #+8
c2-\bendAfter #-6
Breathing signs
Breathing signs are available in different tastes: commas (default), ticks, vees and "railroad
tracks" (caesura).
\new Staff \relative c'' {
\key es \major
\time 3/4
% this bar contains no \breathe
> |
% Modern notation:
% by default, \breathe uses the rcomma, just as if saying:
% \override BreathingSign #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.rcomma")
> |
}
% rvarcomma and lvarcomma are variations of the default rcomma and lcomma
% N.B.: must use Staff context here, since we start a Voice below
\override Staff.BreathingSign #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.rvarcomma" }
> |
% vee
\override BreathingSign #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.upbow" }
es8[ d es f g] \breathe f |
% caesura
\override BreathingSign #'text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.curved" }
es8[ d] \breathe es[ f g f] |
es2 r4 \bar "||"
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Broken Crescendo Hairpin
In order to make parts of a crescendo hairpin invisible, the following method is used: A white
rectangle is drawn on top of the respective part of the crescendo hairpin, making it invisible.
The rectangle is defined as postscript code within a text markup.
To fine-tune the position and size of the markup, the number preceding setgray in the
postscript definition can be set to a value less than one, making it grey. The two numbers before