Re: What am I doing wrong???

[Michiel Lange]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Michiel Lange wrote:
>
> > (I am not educated very much in english musical terms, but one may 
> > recognize the 'I' and 'II' signs in music... someone with some hints? 
> > ;-) to speed up learning ) 
>
>
> Take a look at the glossary included in the LilyPond documentation:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/music-glossary.html 

Thanks, I have taken a look now... altough I could not find it, this 
list is very extensive... so I'll look on in the list... I may have 
overlooked it...

> > There's also one more question...
> >
> > I have one chord that looks like this:
> > <<  <d d,>1 ~ \\ { <fis, a>4 <g b>4. <fis a>8 <e g>4 } >> << <d d'>1 
> > \\ <fis a> >>
> > The lower "extender" goes right through the notes... should it not be 
> > so that it should go under the notes?
>
>
> Try
> <<  d1 ~ \\ d,1 ~ \\ { <fis a>4 <g b>4. <fis a>8 <e g>4 } >> << d'1 \\ 
> d,1 \\ <fis a> >>
>
> The reason is that if you have
> <<{first voice} \\ {second voice} \\ {third voice} \\ {fourth voice} >>
> then the first and third have stems, slurs, ties, ... pointing upwards
> whereas they point downwards for the second and fourth voice. Since you
> kept the lower d in the first voice, the tie was curved upwards instead
> of downwards.
>
>    /Mats

Thanks, that did the trick... logical explatation too... if I could only 
think it up myself :-)

This is my piece now, but now that I also added a \midi block, there are 
problems with writing dvi output... midi output is pretty ok... it's not 
Lilypond's fault, I made some mis-interpretations which I can fix now... 
when I remove the \midi block output goes fine... If I place \midi 
somewhere else, everything goes wrong... it's not fair!

\version "2.2.0"

\header
{
       texidoc = "Psalm 47"
       title = "Prelude to Psalm 47"
       composer= "Michiel Lange"

}
\score
{
       \notes
       \context PianoStaff <<
               \context Staff
               { \relative c'
                       {
                               \key d \major \clef violin
                               r1 r2 r4 <fis a>4\ff << d1 \\ { <g b>4 
<g b>4. <g b>8 <g b>4 } >> <d fis a>1
                               r1 r1 r1 r1
                               a'4 b g a <<  d1 ~ \\ d,1 ~ \\ { <fis 
a>4 <g b>4. <fis a>8 <e g>4 } >> << d'1 \\ d,1 \\ <fis a> >>
                               r1 r1 r1 r1
                               <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d g 
b>16 ~ <d g b>4
                               <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d g 
b>16 ~ <d g b>4
                               <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d fis a>16 <d g 
b>16 ~ <d g b>4
                               <g a cis>2 <d fis a d>1
                       }
               }
               \new Staff
               { \relative c'
                       {
                               \key d \major \clef bass
                               a2\mf fis d4 e4 fis2 d2 r2 r1 a'2\mf 
fis2 d4 e fis2 g4 fis e e d2. r4
                               <d fis>1 ~ <d fis>1 <fis d fis,>1
                               <a a,>2\f \< <fis fis,>2 <d d,>4. <e 
e,>8 <fis fis,>2 <fis fis,>2 <d d,>2 \!\ff b4. <cis cis,>8 <d d,>2
                               <a' fis>8 <g d>8 ~ <g d>4 <a fis>8 <g 
d>8 ~ <g d>4 <a fis>8 <g d>8 ~ <g d>4 <d d,>2 ~ <d d,>1
                       }
               }
               \new Staff
               { \relative c
                       {
                               \key d \major \clef bass
                               a2 fis2 d4 e4 fis2 d2 r2 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 
r1 r1 d1
                               a'2 fis2 d4. e8 fis2 fis'2 d2 b4. cis8 
d2 d,1 ~ d1 ~ d1
                       }
               }
       >>
       \midi { \tempo 4 = 120 }
}