Re: Dealing with almost-repetitive stuff

[Sarah k Alawami]

Can you use variables to do what you want? or maybe first second and third 
endings? Just throwing the idea out there.

Take care.
On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Evan Driscoll <address@hidden> wrote:

> How do you deal with music where there is a lot of repetition of a group
> of measures, but where the dynamics or other instructions (e.g.
> pizz/arco) differs between repetitions?
> 
> For instance, take Holst's Mars (*cough*). The LilyPond docs have a nice
> snippet for being able to generate the "bah-bah-bah dum dum bah-bah dum"
> rhythm at different notes;
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-creating-a-sequence-of-notes-on-various-pitches.
> 
> But what if I need to be able to attach a dynamic to the first note, or
> add a crescendo? Is there a way I can do that without foregoing the
> \rhythm command entirely?
> 
> Does anyone encounter situations like this? How do you deal with it?
> 
> Evan
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