4.4.5 Partitúra és szólamkották

In orchestral music, all notes are printed twice. Once in a part for the musicians, and once in a full score for the conductor. Variables can be used to avoid double work. The music is entered once, and stored in a variable. The contents of that variable is then used to generate both the part and the full score.

It is convenient to define the notes in a special file. For example, suppose that the file ‘horn-music.ly’ contains the following part of a horn/bassoon duo

hornNotes = \relative {
  \time 2/4
  r4 f8 a cis4 f e d
}

Then, an individual part is made by putting the following in a file

\include "horn-music.ly"
\header {
  instrument = "Horn in F"
}

{
 \transpose f c' \hornNotes
}

The line

\include "horn-music.ly"

substitutes the contents of ‘horn-music.ly’ at this position in the file, so hornNotes is defined afterwards. The command \transpose f c' indicates that the argument, being \hornNotes, should be transposed by a fifth upwards. Sounding f is denoted by notated c', which corresponds with the tuning of a normal French Horn in F. The transposition can be seen in the following output

[image of music]

In ensemble pieces, one of the voices often does not play for many measures. This is denoted by a special rest, the multi-measure rest. It is entered with a capital R followed by a duration (1 for a whole note, 2 for a half note, etc.). By multiplying the duration, longer rests can be constructed. For example, this rest takes 3 measures in 2/4 time

R2*3

When printing the part, multi-rests must be condensed. This is done by setting a run-time variable

\set Score.skipBars = ##t

This command sets the property skipBars in the Score context to true (##t). Prepending the rest and this option to the music above, leads to the following result

[image of music]

The score is made by combining all of the music together. Assuming that the other voice is in bassoonNotes in the file ‘bassoon-music.ly’, a score is made with

\include "bassoon-music.ly"
\include "horn-music.ly"

<<
  \new Staff \hornNotes
  \new Staff \bassoonNotes
>>

leading to

[image of music]


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