Hello Ariel, please also see the section in the Notation Reference regarding writing cadenzas and other unmetered music: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#unmetered-music .
You could just treat this passage as a sort of cadenza, and control the barlines manually. As for applying a tick at exact *temporal* intervals, that's outside of my competence. Sincerely, A On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 4:29 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello ! > > I have a question about whether Lilypond can manage a certain type of > notation. > > I happen to love a lot of music that is completely free time/ad > libitum/rubatto/recitativo....so I am curious about different ways to > notate music that has no rythmic pattern, no concept of measures, beats. > > I recently found in a book this transcription of a lute solo ( see the > attachment), where instead of measure bars the pentagram has marks > indicating seconds into the recording. it reminds me a bit of an old piano > scroll. The horizontal axis is in time, not measures. > > My question is can I make a score like that using Lilypond ? > > thanks, > > Ariel// >
