Re: Defining 4 \breve time in Carmina Burana

[Simon Albrecht]

To elaborate a little on David’s response:

On 05.09.2018 11:15, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
> The first bar of part 5: Ecce gratum, from Orff's Camina Burana states 
> a time of 4 \breve notes. In the Schott-edition I have, that is noted 
> not on the staff, but above it.

This would be replicated in LilyPond by \omit Staff.TimeSignature and 
creating custom markups for the time signatures, either as \mark or 
inside a special context (for example using the method in 
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1010).

> Is there a possiblility in Lilypond to define that time? Simpy issuing 
> "time 4/\breve" gives an error message in version 2.19.65 

This is because a duration isn’t the same as any number to LilyPond; 
specifically the \time command expects to be given a fraction (of 
numbers) (that is then internally represented as a Scheme pair). 
Technically, this would be 4/(1/2) in your case, but that isn’t 
supported by Lily, so you have to use 8/1. I have to say, it would be 
kind of cool to write

\version "2.19.82"
{ \time #'(4 . 1/2) \breve \breve \longa }

but that’s not how it works ;-)

Best, Simon