Re: misbehaving voice entry in 4 part piano score

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Tom,

Am 04.04.21 um 23:38 schrieb Tom Cloyd MS MA:

> The
>       second voice  ("VOICE THREE" BELOW) in the base clef is supposed
>       to enter on the beat 1 of the measure 3. Instead, Lilypond prints
>       3 full-measure rests instead of the intended 2, and this is
>       entering on beat 3 of measure 3.
>       
>

Whole-bar rests are traditionally used as a duration-independent symbol (they look the same no matter the time signature, at least for the common ones like 2/4, 6/8, 3/4 etc.). But LilyPond expects to be told their actual duration; so, a whole-bar rest in 3/4 time is R2. or R4*3 (or even R1*3/4).

Some other remarks on your source, if I may:

• Instead of issuing \slurUp etc., it is probably better to just state \oneVoice where multiple voices in a staff are set up (e.g. by \\), but all but one are silent with skips. (In fact, \slurUp etc. are rarely needed.)
  
• Your tuplets are not quite correct, as can be seen when not hiding the tuplet brackets: You write triplets of 8s, grouped together to yield 4s. Try \tuplet 3/2 4 { ... } If you do so, LilyPond even omits the tuplet brackets by default.
• If you use \relative, I'd recommend to issue \relative in the definition of the variable, not where you call the variable. So, I suggest voiceB = \relative { ... } instead of \relative c \voiceB. That way, the music variable is guaranteed to contain the actual music.

Have fun with LilyPond!

Lukas