Re: Correct way to engrave tempo instructions?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Alex Young wrote:
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> On Sunday 13 June 2004 10:50, Alex Klein wrote:
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> > Hi guys,
> > I was wondering, what is the correct way to engrave the tempo
> > instructions (for example "Allegro vivace") in a classical piece? I
> > usually use the piece text in the header (which works nice but in most
> > scores I know the tempo instruction is set above the bar not flushed to
> > the left and is in bold letters), but what if one needs to insert a
> > tempo instruction in the middle of the piece. There are of course the
> > tempo markers, but I need the "text version" for this. Would be nice if
> > there would be a command like
> >
> > \tempo 4=140 "Allegro vivace"
> >
> > which would result in just the text being printed in the score but the
> > numbers used for the midi file.


So far, there is no automated support for this combination, but
you can easily get the printed output using \markup, as described
in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-12/msg00013.html

> I've set a couple of orchestral scores with exactly that problem - I ended up 
> creating an extra part that was something like:
>
> timing = \notes {
>         s1\markup {Legato}
>         \repeat unfold N {s1}
>         s1\markup {Allegro vivace}
> }
>
> where the N is padding to fit in with the other parts.  The good thing about 
> doing it this way is that you can do something like:

Instead of the repeat, you could simply do (if N=24, say)
s1*24 or \skip 1*24


   /Mats