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Ancient accidentals

Syntax

Use the style property of grob Accidental to select ancient accidentals. Supported styles are mensural, vaticana, hufnagel and medicaea.

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As shown, not all accidentals are supported by each style. When trying to access an unsupported accidental, LilyPond will switch to a different style, as demonstrated in input/test/ancient-accidentals.ly.

Similarly to local accidentals, the style of the key signature can be controlled by the style property of the KeySignature grob.

See also

Pitches, Chromatic alterations and Accidentals give a general introduction into the use of accidentals. Key signature gives a general introduction into the use of key signatures.

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

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