Re: Creating music with Scheme - can this be done in a simpler way?

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Alard,

I have found that tweaking the 'music-box.ly' example on the Tips & Tricks page can be pretty useful for similar situations to yours - it's certainly saved me some time in a few piano pieces where there's a repetitive accompaniment pattern.

There's probably a more elegant solution than the following, but my knowledge of scheme is rudimentary to say the least.

If you copy the two scheme functions from 
music-box.ly
, you can use \applymusic on a macro:

pedalMotif = \transpose c c' { \times 2/3 { c8 c c } c4 c8[ c] c4 }

{ 
    \clef bass
    \applyMusic #transform {
        \pedalMotif { g, }
        \pedalMotif { c }
    }
}

Regards,
Neil