Is there a way for a music function to operate on the note that precedes it?
I’m transcribing chant and have lots of music where I transcribed the note just
before the bar as a quarter note (the same as other non-reciting notes in the
measure):
{ \cadenzaOn g'1 c'4 f' \bar "|" }
I’ve been asked now to lengthen the note just before the bar by making it into
a dotted quarter:
{ \cadenzaOn g'1 c'4 f'4. \bar "|" }
What I’d like to know is if there’s a way that I can modify the \bar function
so that it automatically changes the duration of the note just before it, or if
I have to break out the text replacement tools to modify all my source files.
As a further complication, the dotted quarter notation hasn’t been settled yet,
as there are some arguing for making it a quarter with a tenuto and others for
a half note, so I’d really like a function that allows me to switch between
those three options (dotted quarter, quarter with tenuto, or half note)
relatively easily.
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Fr. Samuel, OSB
(R. Padraic Springuel)
St. Anselm’s Abbey
4501 South Dakota Ave, NE
Washington, DC, 20017
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