From: lilypond-user <[email protected]>
on behalf of "Dijkhuizen, J.F. van" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 10:26 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Three-note tremolo in 4/4
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to fit a three-note tremolo into a 4/4 measure. I've sort of been
able to do this as follows:
\version "2.22.0"
\relative c''
{
\repeat tremolo 8 {\tuplet 3/4 { g32 d c }}
}
(Of course you could hide the tuplet numbers here.)
or:
\version "2.22.0"
\relative c''
\new Staff = "Example" {
\time 4/4
\set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = 3/4
\scaleDurations 4/3 { \repeat tremolo 8 { g32 d c } }
While both look more or less OK, the notes appear as dotted half notes, rather
than as whole notes. They should be whole notes, since the tremolo lasts the
entire measure but I can't figure out how to do this.
Does anybody know of a way to create a 3-note tremolo in 4/4 time in which all
three notes appear as whole notes?
It appears that this cannot be done with \repeat tremolo. I’m a little bit
surprised that your code worked. Note the following from the Notation
Reference:
The \repeat tremolo syntax expects exactly two notes within the braces
This could probably be hacked (anything can be in LilyPond). It looks like you
would need to modify the properties of tremolo-repeated-music.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/internals/tremolorepeatedmusic
I have no experience working with this type of music, so I can’t give you any
pointers beyond this.
Carl
