On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM Troy Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am notating an existing piece of music with a 3/4 time signature. The
> first measure in the original piece only has a single quarter note, and the
> final measure has a single fermata quarter note. The original piece has 3/4
> set at the beginning, and the time signature is not changed throughout the
> piece.
>
> *I know that this is probably non-standard, but I am trying to reproduce
> the piece exactly as the original!*
>
> I have tried the following:
>
> \score { \new Staff { \time 3/4 c'4 | d' e' f' | g'\fermata } }
>
> and the | have no impact in manually breaking the first and last
> measures. Also,
>
> \score { \new Staff { \time 3/4 c'4 \bar "|" d' e' f' | g'\fermata \bar
> "|" } }
>
> puts bars where they need to be, but the computation of
> measure delineation is miscalculated (relative to where I want the measures
> to end). Finally,
>
> \score { \new Staff { \time 3/4 s2 c'4 | d' e' f' | g'\fermata s2 } }
>
> breaks the measures correctly, but it leaves a space before the first note
> and a space after the last note (which the original does not have). I do
> not mind having these spaces to keep the measure counts correct, but I do
> not want the spaces to be in the notation.
>
> I would appreciate a solution to this.
>
> Troy Henderson
>
You probably want to use the \partial command, maybe twice:
\version "2.24.4"
\score { \new Staff { \time 3/4 \partial 4 c'4 | d' e' f' | \partial 4
g'\fermata } }
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Knute Snortum
