Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

[James E. Bailey]

Am 07.02.2009 um 15:50 schrieb Jayaratna:

> Dear subscribers,
>
> I am inputting some very complicated polyphonic music for keyboard.  
> Maybe
> this is a newbie idiotic question, but I cannot understand how to  
> input
> these two bars: the problem is printing the tied A across the  
> measures while
> keeping the second one in the same chord with the upper C. This  
> does not
> seem to work:
>
>   <<{\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp a4_~ a}>>
>
>
> nor this:
>
>
>   <<{\stemUp c2~}\\{\stemDown g4 a_~}>> <c a>4

You'll want the section in the documentation on Explicitly  
instantiating voices. I don't remember if it's in the Learning Manual  
or Notation Reference, but exactly this issue is covered.