Re: odd bar check errors

[Sarah k Alawami]

Thanks. I was going off of the templet  on the site. The whole song with out 
repeats is 23 measures long, with repeats it's double that I think. I'm not 
performing this

Here is a recording of the harpsichord part I was to orchestrate.. It jumps all 
over the place and I'm not aloud to change the line of the melody.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1672188/lessons%20in%20harpsichord%20orchestra%20assignment%20in%20g%20major.mp3

Take care.
On May 13, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Wim van Dommelen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
> 
> You sure have come a long way, but I think it is already a nice result.
> 
> What I see:
> 
> - line 17: the opening bracket is still before the \relative instead of 
> after. That causes a problem that the musical expression seen by the 
> \relative is only the next statement, that is the \key g \major. After that 
> LilyPond will interpret the notes for the flute as absolute. But be carefull 
> in changing it, because there are some octave jumps and by adding these up 
> LilyPond can let the notes "runaway".
> 
> - line 68: the jump from g'' to b''' is impossible, it arrives here because 
> it starts at \relative c'', goes to the d, to the g (all without quotes) and 
> then the b' is interpreyed as b''. This is a typical example of LilyPond 
> "running away" in the height because all the quotes add up. My guess is that 
> the quote after the b is wrong and you want this b in the same range. Remove 
> and check if this is what you want. This happens also at some other places, 
> for example on line 70 where it goes to the next octave because the higher d 
> is closer then the lower one. This is how \relative works: the last note 
> specified was an a, the next is a d without quote or comma so it fetches the 
> d closest by. But my guess is you don't want that high d but one octave 
> lower. You'll get that one by specifying d, (the note followed by a comma).
> 
> - line 26: the notes do not match up to 12/8, LilyPond complains on the 
> barcheck. Reading the discussion on the \grace note, I'm wondering if you 
> want a grace note here or that note is just part of the regular music the 
> \grace command acts on the next expression, in this case the gis and it does 
> NOT count it for the whole measure, so now you have 11/8. Either the \grace 
> should be out or another /8 should be in somewhere. I cannot decide for you.
> 
> - line 187: next barcheck problem: same problem with 1/8 missing (or a stray 
> \grace)
> 
> - several places: you specify different size of the repeats, for example in 
> the flute part you a \repeat on line 20 spanning a significant piece of the 
> music (it ends in line 43), but in the clarinet part you start a repeat on 
> line 65 ending in the midlle of line 67. This piece is much smaller. LilyPond 
> will insert several repeat marks and propagate these when possible to the 
> other parts as well. It makes the result a little bit messy. Because it is a 
> small piece and I think you only want the repeats to avoid typing too much 
> notes, you can think of taking out the ones you don't need. Like line 67 
> already show the d4. and r4. twice, the repeat is too much.
> 
> - line 125: the bassoon normally uses a bass-clef, insert it here after the 
> global!
> 
> - line 61: here you \transpose the clarinet music, but you do it wrong! It 
> should be \transpose bes c' because that is how the clarinet is written. But 
> in line 429 you do it again which cancels out the first action. Plus you also 
> mention \transposition in line 427. My advise: remove the \transpose in line 
> 61, also remove the \transposition in line 427 and leave 429. Because your 
> piece is written in concert pitch g major, it should now for the clarinet 
> part show a major.
> 
> - line 176: same problem for the horn: remove it and also the \transpose in 
> line 441.
> 
> Good luck and have a good performance!
> 
> Regards,
> Wim.
> 
> 
> On 13 May 2013, at 07:44 , Sarah k Alawami wrote:
> 
>> Hello to the list. 
>> 
>> I notice that some of my grace notes are also causing the bar check errors 
>> but most of them I think are happening at the end  dog repeats where there's 
>> an incomplete measure as it was filling time so you can go back and repeat 
>> the anicrusis. 
>> Over all thats all I'm noting, that and the wrong octaves that I'm still not 
>> sure how to fix. sometimes I hate perfect pitch, like today.
>> 
>> Attached is the .ly file.
>> 
>