Re: Glissandos into Note

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Ben, hi Greg,

thanks for bringing this up - in fact I started this morning to dig up my old work, prompted by Greg's question.

It seems I only developed the functions a but further back then (unfortunately I don't have time at the moment to look into it in detail) - the difference seems to be that now, bends also avoid Dots. See the attached version.

Lukas

Am 13.04.24 um 10:58 schrieb Benjamin Tordoff:

Hi Greg, the conversation on this list back in Dec'22 and Jan'23 ended up with Lukas-Fabian Moser sending me the attached script and example. I was able to use this successfully to typeset a range of scoops, bends, and falls. It'd be better to get the latest version from Lukas-Fabian in case he has done more work on it, but this might do what you need. You can see the results I got using this here: https://pluralsax.com/music-entry/147/alabamy-bound.

Whilst the script is complicated (and well beyond my understanding), using it was not.

There was some discussion of whether this script (or something like it) could make it into the main lilypond install but I don't think it has yet.

Cheers

Ben

On 13 Apr 2024, at 08:23, Hans Aikema <hans.aikema@aikebah.net> wrote:

On 13 Apr 2024, at 01:07, Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom@gmail.com> wrote:



Hello - 

I would like to write a glissando leading into a note without a starting note. Perhaps the term is not glissando, but we encounter it often in jazz where the trumpets and trombones will "slide" up to a note to accentuate. It may be called a "scoop" but that's speculation on my part.  Here's an example: Can this be done (by a mortal)?

Should be possible by tricking lilypond like in

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-06/msg00132.html

In that and other threads on scoops there are a few other tricks to achieve the same goal, but I think the approach in that message is the easiest to comprehend.

My impression (no time to validate now) is that the trick from that post would pollute the midi file. So in case you need a more or less clean midi (which will nit contain any effect for the scoop) rather than just display in the sheet music the more complex workaround given in

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-12/msg00314.html

 might be worth a try

HTH

Hans

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