Re: Is this some sort of glissando?

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-05-09 06:08 PM, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote:
> Phil,
>
> What you have there is not a glissando, but rather a bar where
> alternating notes are to be played as sixteenths (the two beams) for
> the entire bar (the dotted half).  I'm not sure how to render this
> particular thing in Lilypond, but you could simply write out all the
> sixteenths.  But (without looking it up) there is probably a way to do
> it fairly easy.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Gordon+

Sure is, Father Gordon: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/short-repeats#tremolo-repeats 
does it!

Colin

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