12.1.6 Overview of available music functions

The following commands are music functions

rightHandFinger - finger (number or string)

Define a StrokeFingerEvent

musicMap - proc (procedure) mus (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

transposedCueDuring - what (string) dir (direction) pitch-note (music) main-music (music)

Insert notes from the part what into a voice called cue, using the transposition defined by pitch-note. This happens simultaneously with main-music, which is usually a rest. The argument dir determines whether the cue notes should be notated as a first or second voice.

breathe -

(undocumented; fixme)

withMusicProperty - sym (symbol) val (any type) music (music)

Set sym to val in music.

grace - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

spacingTweaks - parameters (list)

Set the system stretch, by reading the 'system-stretch property of the `parameters' assoc list.

octave - pitch-note (music)

octave check

resetRelativeOctave - reference-note (music)

Set the octave inside a \relative section.

parallelMusic - voice-ids (list) music (music)

Define parallel music sequences, separated by '|' (bar check signs), and assign them to the identifiers provided in voice-ids.

voice-ids: a list of music identifiers (symbols containing only letters)

music: a music sequence, containing BarChecks as limiting expressions.

Example:

     
       \parallelMusic #'(A B C) {
         c c | d d | e e |
         d d | e e | f f |
       }
     <==>
       A = { c c | d d | }
       B = { d d | e e | }
       C = { e e | f f | }

overrideProperty - name (string) property (symbol) value (any type)

Set property to value in all grobs named name. The name argument is a string of the form "Context.GrobName" or "GrobName"

cueDuring - what (string) dir (direction) main-music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

partcombine - part1 (music) part2 (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

balloonGrobText - grob-name (symbol) offset (pair of numbers) text (markup)

(undocumented; fixme)

transposition - pitch-note (music)

Set instrument transposition

clef - type (string)

Set the current clef.

shiftDurations - dur (integer) dots (integer) arg (music)

featherDurations - factor (moment) argument (music)

Rearrange durations in ARGUMENT so there is an acceleration/deceleration.

instrumentSwitch - name (string)

(undocumented; fixme)

bar - type (string)

(undocumented; fixme)

applyMusic - func (procedure) music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

quoteDuring - what (string) main-music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

displayLilyMusic - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

oldaddlyrics - music (music) lyrics (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

includePageLayoutFile -

If page breaks and tweak dump is not asked, and the file <basename>-page-layout.ly exists, include it.

balloonText - offset (pair of numbers) text (markup)

(undocumented; fixme)

acciaccatura - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

compressMusic - fraction (pair of numbers) music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

autochange - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

bendAfter - delta (integer)

(undocumented; fixme)

makeClusters - arg (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

appoggiatura - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

unfoldRepeats - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

barNumberCheck - n (integer)

(undocumented; fixme)

parenthesize - arg (music)

Tag arg to be parenthesized.

addInstrumentDefinition - name (string) lst (list)

(undocumented; fixme)

removeWithTag - tag (symbol) music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

assertBeamSlope - comp (procedure)

(undocumented; fixme)

afterGrace - main (music) grace (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

tag - tag (symbol) arg (music)

Add tag to the tags property of arg.

killCues - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

keepWithTag - tag (symbol) music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

pitchedTrill - main-note (music) secondary-note (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

scoreTweak - name (string)

Include the score tweak, if exists.

addquote - name (string) music (music)

Add a piece of music to be quoted

applyOutput - ctx (symbol) proc (procedure)

(undocumented; fixme)

assertBeamQuant - l (pair) r (pair)

(undocumented; fixme)

displayMusic - music (music)

(undocumented; fixme)

tweak - sym (symbol) val (any type) arg (music)

Add sym . val to the tweaks property of arg.

applyContext - proc (procedure)

(undocumented; fixme)