Re: rearrange music flow

[Arjan Bos]

On 26 dec 2008, at 18:41, Antanas Budriūnas wrote:

> Hello Lily-users,
>
> after few arrangements and engraving from my own manuscripts I'm
> trying to move my composing work to Lilypond (without paper sheets). I
> guess this is rare but IMHO worth to try.
> Till now I puzzle over a problem each time when I need several
> measures from one place in the score (all parts together, maybe with
> lyrics) repeat somewhere in the middle of the piece or rearrange music
> flow in general.
> Some advance can be a naming (variables) relatively small chunks of
> music, each bar or so. But this way source reading becomes
> complicated.
> I can imagine some intermediate element between Staff (StaffGroup) and
> Score in the Lilypond hierarchy, which includes sevaral staves but
> neither starts new line nor puts clef, key and time signature.
> Maybe I'm missing something and a way does exist in Lilypond to
> achieve such flexibility? (Sorry I'm not so brave to dive into Scheme
> coding).


Hi Antanas,

Perhaps I'm not understanding your question, but it is possible to put  
almost everything in variables, including whole scores. So I'm very  
confident that it is possible to put something like:

\version "2.11.65"
tenorVoice = \context Voice { \relative c'' { a4 b c d }}
tenorStaff = \context Staff { \tenorVoice }
\score { \tenorStaff }

Will this help you?

Regards,
Arjan