Ok I messed around and in fact I did have a rhythm issue. My remaining question is about controlling whether or not notes double.
With the following .ly file, I want only the first b' to be doubled. The c' in the second measure should not be. ---pasillo_n1.ly--- \version "2.18.2" \header { title = "Pasillo No. 1" composer = "Prof Francisco A. Velasquez" } << { \time 3/4 \key g \major r8 << \new Voice = "melody" { \voiceThree b'-0 cis''-2[ dis''-4] e''-0[ fis''-1] | s4 c'''4. b''8 | g8[ g'] e''4 r8 fis'' | } \new Voice { \voiceTwo b'-3 ais'-3[ a'-1] g'-0[ fis'-3] | s4 c'''8[ b'] g'[ b''] | s4 e''8[ b'] g'[ fis''] | } \new Voice { \voiceFour s2 s8 | e4~ e2 | g4~ g2 | } >> } >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 3:04 PM <jasm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi lilypond folks, > > I'm trying to make a cleaned up version of the score here: > http://www.knila.nl/files/Pasillo_no1.pdf (also attached). > > The composer is being quite expressive with stems and the notation in > general, and I'd really like to replicate it. > > Right away I've started running into trouble. On the very first note, we > have a doubled b. To a guitarist, that indicates that the note shall be > played on more than one string. In lilypond I am having no luck figuring > out how to make it do this. > > In the second measure, there are three voices. The melody (c' b'), > accompaniment (c' b g b') (though the c' and b' are not doubled, those are > just two voices sharing a note), and the bass (e,). > > Now I'm having the opposite problem as I ran into in the first note... I > *don't* want to draw the c' twice, I just want two different stems coming > out of it (seems to work ok for the b'). And then with the low e, I can't > figure out how to get the half note to align horizontally with the b' from > the first two voices. I am pretty sure I'm not just messing up the rhythm > in my notation, but I could be wrong. > > Can anyone help me here? I'm embedding my .ly file below and attaching a > rendered pdf. > > Also happy to have my markup style trounced on here, I'm mostly piecing > things together from snippets in the lilypond docs. > > ---pasillo_n1.ly--- > \version "2.18.2" > \header { > title = "Pasillo No. 1" > composer = "Prof Francisco A. Velasquez" > } > > << > \relative d'' { > \time 3/4 > \key g \major > r8 > << > \new Voice = "melody" > { \voiceThree > b-0 cis-2[ dis-4] e-0[ fis-1] | > r4 c'4. b8 | > s4 e,4 r8 fis | > > } > \new Voice { \voiceTwo > b,-3 ais-3[ a-1] g-0[ fis-3] | > s4 c''8[ b,] g[ b'] | > g,,8[ g'] e'[ b] g[ fis] | > } > \new Voice { \voiceFour > s2. > e,4~ e2 > g4~ g2 > } > >> > } > >> > > >