Hi List,
I'm working on a realization of Stockhausen's "Plus Minus", and one of its frequent features is the instruction to play a group of notes "as fast as possible". In contemporary music notation there is a common practice of notating rapid passages with a single slashed beam and irregular note spacing, giving the duration as a note value with a tuplet bracket. I see in the LSR the following:
and
which together seem like they'd provide the necessary function, but I don't know how to implement them together as a single command. What I would like is the following, if possible:
I can treat the passage as a tuplet, allowing me to calculate the entire duration,
which I can then specify to be displayed instead of a tuplet number,
the passage will be contained under a single, slashed beam, and (optionally)
the note-spacing can be irregular (does Lily even have this capability? To apply randomized x-offsets to specific notes without interfering with the alignment of other voices?)
LSR 721 makes it look like even getting slashed beams involves a lot of Scheme code; is there a more elegant way to do this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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