Re: Question about Lilypond and meterless/free time music

[Kees van den Doel]

Attached is a demo of meterless typesetting. Unfortunately it required persian.ly (see email earlier today) and v 2.12

but the "meterless" aspect does not depend on that so I hope it's still useful.

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 7:30 AM <ariel@aramburu.org> wrote:

Hello !

I have a question about whether Lilypond can manage a certain type of notation.

I happen to love a lot of music that is completely free time/ad libitum/rubatto/recitativo....so I am curious about different ways to notate music that has no rythmic pattern, no concept of measures, beats.

I recently found in a book this transcription of a lute solo ( see the attachment), where instead of measure bars the pentagram has marks indicating seconds into the recording. it reminds me a bit of an old piano scroll. The horizontal axis is in time, not measures.

My question is can I make a score like that using Lilypond ?

thanks,

Ariel//

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