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Re: Repeat with alternatives


From: Tim McNamara
Subject: Re: Repeat with alternatives
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:40:55 -0500

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:22 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir / Madam,
>  
> I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that 
> “\repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in 
> “\alternative”. However, this seems to work only for alternative endings, 
> while I have alternative middle parts.
>  
> I have tried to fix this manually with introducing volta brackets and repeat 
> signs. Unfortunately Lilypond doesn’t recognize this as a repeat and counts 
> the notes of the alternatives as if they are all played in one run (so that 
> the first note after the alternatives does not start a new measure, as it 
> should, see attachment).

Yes.  You are starting the alternative in the middle of the bar which, from the 
perspective of the musician reading the piece, is going to look very odd and be 
hard to follow.  The alternatives should always be full bars not only for 
Lilypond to function correctly but for the musicians to be able to play it 
correctly without needing a lot of instruction.

The updated file here corrects the issue and is more readable:


Attachment: Example Updated.ly
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Attachment: Example Updated.pdf
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