Re: Note between bars

[ghe]

address@hidden wrote:

> I looked carefully in the Lilypond manuals, but did not find a way to 
> put a note (usually a full or a half note) between two bars, like this : 
> |o|, or between two double bars, like this : ||o||.  This notation is 
> for example often used in psalmody, to mean that the same note should be 
> used for a whole sentence, except its three or four last syllables, 
> which are then noted with usual notes.  For instance, the first verse of 
> psalm 1 is "Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the 
> wicked", and such a note is put under "Blessed", with three different 
> notes under "with the wicked".

Christ van Willegen wrote:

> Those are 'breve' notes. Look them up using the search box. Perhaps this 
> will give an indication of how to write them: 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms

Carl Peterson wrote:

> Are you talking about a breve (using \breve instead of a duration, 
> see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms)? 
> You may also be looking at cadenzas, 
> see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#unmetered-music
>
> To put multiple syllables under one note, use quotes, as in "Blessed is 
> the one who does not walk in step" with the wicked.

David Kastrup wrote:

> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#durations>
>
> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/note-head-styles>

That was a fast answer!  Many thanks, indeed I did not look carefully 
enough in the manual.

--ghe