Re: scaling both durations and displayed note values?

[David Kastrup]

James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:

> Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a
> factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time,
> but the displayed note values are also doubled?
>
> \scaleDurations does only the former, but not the latter.
>
> I'm finally sitting down to typeset a couple of mensural canons that I
> wrote some years ago, and I was hoping to enter the part that is
> imitated just once, in a variable, and then do something like:
>
> \scaleDurations #'(2 . 1) { \firstHalf }

\shiftDurations #1 #0 \firstHalf

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David Kastrup