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Re: 2 \tempo command at the same time


From: Robert Schmaus
Subject: Re: 2 \tempo command at the same time
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:20:10 +0100

Well you *can* do that (and I've seen it done that way), but often - the music being improvised anyway - you don't really have a tempo indication, except for Swing, Med. Swing, Uptempo Swing, Ballad etc., and those are just suggestions or show how the piece was played in a referenced recording. That's, if we're talking about a lead sheet - look into a "Real Book" for examples.

If it's orchestral music (eg Big Band), the score probably contains more exact tempo values (which my Big Band conductor usually ignores ...). 



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On 20 Mar 2015, at 14:55, Anton Curl <address@hidden> wrote:

I don't know much about jazz. It's not the kind of music I'm usually typesetting.

I never saw a jazz lead sheet with swing written followed by the metronome mark between brackets. If it's the policy, I can adopt it. But I'm curious to see some examples of it.

Anton Curl

On 20/03/2015 14:36, Robert Schmaus wrote:
If you're producing a jazz lead sheet (as the "swing" indicates), you're wrong. 

\tempo "Swing" 4=125

Merely indicates that the *style* is Swing while the tempo is 125. You could also write 
\tempo "Swing" 4=200
Which would indicate that this is a swing piece of tempo 200. 

Jazz tempo indications don't work like classical ones where a tempo name also implies a certain (narrow) range of bpm. 

Best, Rob 

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 
-- Giorgos Seferis

On 20 Mar 2015, at 10:03, Anton Curl <address@hidden> wrote:

That's not exactly what I want.

"\tempo "Swing" 4=125" seems to mean "the tempo is Swing which correspond to 4=125". Whereas what I want is 2 different independent indications. The same result but without the parenthesis for example.

Maybe the \tempo command is not the command to use in this case. But I didn't find another way to have an indication once in the score and in each part.

Anton Curl

On 20/03/2015 09:36, Craig Dabelstein wrote:
Hi Anton,

Can't you do:

\tempo "Swing" 4=125

Or is that not what you are looking for?

Craig


On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 at 17:59 Anton Curl <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi everyone!

I'd like to put an indication displayed in all the parts but only once
in the score, like a tempo mark.

I found this syntax:
   \tempo \markup { "swing" }
But at the same place in the score, I already have a \tempo command:
   \tempo 4=125
   \tempo \markup { "swing" }
   c

And Lilypond ignore the second.

What do I have to do to display both indications?

Thanks

Anton Curl

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