Re: Question about Lilypond and meterless/free time music

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 31/07/2021 à 08:59, ariel@aramburu.org a écrit :
> Hello !
>
> I have a question about whether Lilypond can manage a certain type of 
> notation.
>
> I happen to love a lot of music that is completely free time/ad 
> libitum/rubatto/recitativo....so I am curious about different ways to 
> notate music that has no rythmic pattern, no concept of measures, beats.
>
> I recently found in a book this transcription of a lute solo ( see the 
> attachment), where instead of measure bars the pentagram has marks 
> indicating seconds into the recording. it reminds me a bit of an old 
> piano scroll. The horizontal axis is in time, not measures.
>
> My question is can I make a score like that using Lilypond ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ariel//

Are you looking after marks added automatically, spread
evenly based on the durations and the tempo? Or rather
a \tick command allowing to insert one at any given moment?

Best,
Jean