Re: Three slurs from a single voice to three voices?

[Paul Hodges]

You only start one slur, so you only get one.  If you try extra notes, you have to ensure that the voices are such that they will combine.  However, you could in this case specify a tie to the note that's the same, a slur to the note below, and a phrasing slur to the bottom note, so your starting note has these piled up after it like so: fs4~(\( .  But the result is clashing slurs, so you'll need to use the \shape tweak to adjust the position of at least one of them.

But to me this seems a very odd way to write this...

Paul

From: Kevin Cole <dc.loco@gmail.com>
To: lilypond-user mailinglist <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: 02/06/2022 21:56
Subject: Three slurs from a single voice to three voices?

Hi,

The hand-written score I'm looking at shows an F# with three slurs
coming off of it going to each of the three notes in the following
measure. I tried the following but it only shows one slur. What did I
miss?

%%%%%%%%
\version "2.22.1"
\language "english"

\new Staff {
 \relative c' {
   \time 4/4
   \key d \major
   d2 r4 fs4(            |
   <<
     \voiceOne {
       fs4)( g) g4 fs4   |
       fs4( b4) b2       |
     }
     \new Voice
     \voiceTwo {
       d,2) cs4 cs4      |
       d2 d2             |
     }
     \new Voice
     \voiceThree {
       b2) as4 as4       |
       b2 b2             |
     }
   >>
   \oneVoice
 }
}
%%%%%%%%

(I also tried adding the starting F# to each of the three voices but
it made a two-headed F#. I didn't go so far as to add the F# to the
third voice, since it was messing up when I added it to the second,
and it seemed like there was probably a better solution than fighting
with the direction of the head for the single note, since it's one
more thing I don't know how to do, and seemed -- to me --
counter-intuitive as an approach.)