Re: grace, appoggiatura or acciaccatura? and at the beginning of the first measure?

[Paul Scott]

On 1/29/21 10:48 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hello;
>
>    I have two (only two at this time!) misunderstandings on how to
> properly engrave ornamental notes.  The grace (?) notes are slurred
> (so not a grace note?) and occur at the beginning of a bar.
>
> Now the syntax: \grace { note(s) } followed by regular notes.  This
> makes sense because the appoggiatura syntax and the acciaccatura have
> only one note allowed prior to the "regular" notes.

\acciaccatura{ note1 note2, etc. } will allow as many notes as you need.

Paul


> But the grace notes are not slurred?
>
> Why does the time signature get displayed after the "grace" notes as
> well is the beginning of the staff where it should be?
>
> I'm looking in Learning and Notation regarding grace, appoggiatura or
> acciaccatura.  I do not understand how to resolve this conundrum.
>
> I have attached two screenshots of what I am using as a model to learn
> how to engrave with and the result I'm getting. from.png is the
> example I'm using, and result.png is the result.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
>
> Here's my Lilypond code:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.20.0"
>
> global = {
>    \language "english"
>    \numericTimeSignature
>    \key c \major
>    \time 4/4
> }
>
> lh = \fixed c, {
>    \global
>    \clef bass
>
>
>    \grace { e16 fs gs } a1                   | % m1
>    \grace { e16 fs gs } a1                   | % m2
>    \grace { e16 fs gs } a4-. a4-. a4-. a4-.  | % m3
>    \grace { e16 fs gs } a4-. a4-. a4-. a4-.  | % m4
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%