Re: Elongating Measures

[Greg Lindstrom]

There are a couple typos in my last post. It should be minLen, of course.

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 10:12 AM Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom@gmail.com> wrote:

Kieren (and friends) - 

Thank-you. This works great. And since I want to use it in a number of locations I made a couple of functions:

% Length Crescendo - Specify a minimum length for the crescendo

lCresc = #(define-music-function(parser location minLen) (integer?)

            #{
              -\tweak minimum-length #'numLen -\<
            #})

% Length Decrescendo - Specify a minimum length for the decrescendo

lDcresc = #(define-music-function(parser location minLen) (integer?)
            #{
              -\tweak minimum-length #'numLen -\>
            #})

Which cleans things up a bit:

  \time 3/2 af bf(c)\!|

  \time 2/2 df1\f \lDcresc 7 \breathe|

  c2\mf af|

Thanks for the help!

--greg

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 7:55 PM Kieren MacMillan <kieren@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote:

Hi Greg,

> I would like it to be longer so the decrescendo is a bit more prominent.
> [snip]
> Is there a way I can specify the length of the measure or otherwise make it longer?

Here’s one option:

%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.11"

{
  df2\mf df\<  |
  \time 3/2 df df( f)\!  |
  \time 2/2 f1\f -\tweak minimum-length 12 -\> \breathe  |
  f2\mf c  |
  c ef\<  |
}
%%%  SNIPPET ENDS

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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