Re: Trill and nonstandard expressive mark

[David Kastrup]

Shane Brandes <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you Ed,
>
>   That means I can take a number of text less trills back into the
> trillspanner function. However that leaves yet the upprall, an up
> prall or for that matter a down prall trill has an extra long initial
> curved slash that tells you which neighbour, upper or lower to start
> from as you enter the trill. It is worth looking up how they function
> if you  find yourself dealing with such music as the small extra
> flashiness intended is really delightful. It was a relatively common
> notation in the baroque possibly early classical, or rather galant,
> period. It is one of the tiny useful things, once a standard notation,
> that lilypond still has not gotten into its arsenal.

\version "2.17.9"

{ c'-\tweak bound-details.left.text
             \markup \musicglyph #"scripts.upprall"
      \tweak bound-details.left.stencil-offset #'(0.1 . 0)
      \startTrillSpan
  d'
  c'2\stopTrillSpan }


-- 
David Kastrup