Re: showing counterpoint in solo music

[Gilles THIBAULT]

>  <<
>    { f16  d' b g e c  | d b' g e c a' }
>    \\
>   { f16[ s  s s e s] | d[ s s s c s] }
>  >>
> that means the score has to be typed twice.

Well, if you really want to repeat this construct a lot of time, changing
only notes, you can use the snippet shortly described here :
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=654
You can download the "changePitch.ly" file (and perhaps,too the help pdf 
file
if you need it) here :
http://gillesth.free.fr/Lilypond/changePitch/

The only difficult work is to find the good pattern, but after that,
it is very very quick ...

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\include "changePitch.ly"

pattern = {
 <<
   \samePitch {  <<
       {c16 s s s s s}
       \\
       {c16[ s s s s] s}
       >>
   }
   \context Voice = "1" {s16 c c c s s}
   \samePitch { <<
       {s16 s s s c s} \\
       {s16 s s s c s}
       >>
   }
   \context Voice = "1" {s16 s s s s c}
 >>
   |
}


\new Staff  \relative c' {
 \time 3/8
 \changePitch \pattern  {
   f d' b g e c
   d b' g e c a'
   % add other notes here ...
 }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Gilles

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