Rewiting rules

[afshin]

Hi

Any advice on how to achieve the following in LilyPond Automatically.... "for a
given pattern of N notes redo the typesetting to put each occurrence of the
pattern on a separate staff. making sure to have all other notes still follow
the said pattern. "
There are many other extensions to this idea that Ethnomusicologists use all the
time. 
If you don't think that Lilypond is the right tool can you think of 
alternatives?


Thanks

Afshin