Music properties

alteration (number)

alteration for figured bass

articulation-type (string)

key for script definitions alist.

TODO: consider making type into symbol

articulations (list of music)

Articulation events specifically for this note.

bass (boolean)

Set if this note is a bass note in a chord

bracket-start (boolean)

start a bracket here. TODO: use span requests?

bracket-stop (boolean)

stop a bracket here.

cautionary (boolean)

If set, this alteration needs cautionary accidental

change-to-id (string)

name of the context to change to

change-to-type (symbol)

type of the context to change to.

compress-procedure (procedure)

compress this music expression. Argument 1: the music, arg 2: factor

context-id (string)

name of context

context-type (symbol)

type of context

denominator (integer)

denominator in a time signature

digit (integer)

digit for fingering

direction (direction)

Print this up or down?

duration (duration)

Duration of this note/lyric.

element (music)

The single child of a Music_wrapper music object, or the body of a repeat.

elements (list of music)

A list of elements for sequential of simultaneous music, or the alternatives of repeated music.

figure (string)

a `figure' (which may be a string) for figured bass

force-accidental (boolean)

If set, a cautionary accidental should always be printed on this note

grob-property (symbol)

The symbol of the grob property to set.

grob-value (any type)

The value of the grob property to set

internal-class-name (string)

C++ class to use for this Music object

inversion (boolean)

If set, this chord note is inverted.

iterator-ctor (procedure)

Function to construct music-event-iterator object for this Music

label (markup)

label of a mark.

last-pitch (pitch)

The last pitch after relativization.

length (procedure)

How to compute the duration of this music

metronome-count (number)

How many beats in a minute?

name (symbol)

Name of this music object

numerator (integer)

numerator of a time signature

octavation (integer)

This pitch was octavated by how many octaves? For chord inversions, this is negative.

once (boolean)

Apply this operation only during one time step?

origin (input location)

where was this piece of music defined?

penalty (number)

Penalty for break hint.

pitch (pitch)

the pitch of this note

pitch-alist (list)

list of pitches jointly forming the scale of a key signature

pop-first (boolean)

Do a revert before we try to do a override on some grob property.

predicate (procedure)

the predicate of a outputproperty

procedure (procedure)

The function to run with \applycontext. It must take a single argument, being the context.

repeat-count (integer)

do a epeat how ofen?

span-direction (direction)

Does this start or stop a spanner?

span-type (string)

What kind of spanner should be created?

TODO: consider making type into symbol

start-moment-function (procedure)

Function to compute the negative length of starting grace notes.

string-number (integer)

The number of the string in a String_number_req

symbol (symbol)

Grob name to perform an override/revert on.

tags (list)

List of symbols that for denoting extra details, eg. \tag #'part ... could tag a piece of music as only being active in a part.

tempo-unit (duration)

The unit for the metronome count.

text (markup)

markup expression to be printed

text-type (symbol)

Particular type of text script (eg. finger, dynamic).

tonic (pitch)

Base of the scale

tremolo-type (integer)

type (symbol)

The type of this music object. Determines iteration in some cases.

types (list)

The types of this music object. Determines iteration in some cases.

value (any type)

Assignment value for a translation property

what (symbol)

What to change for auto-change. FIXME, naming

This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).