Tuplets are made out of a music expression by multiplying all durations with a fraction:
\times fraction musicexpr
The duration of musicexpr will be multiplied by the fraction. The fraction's denominator will be printed over the notes, optionally with a bracket. The most common tuplet is the triplet in which 3 notes have the length of 2, so the notes are 2/3 of their written length:
g'4 \times 2/3 {c'4 c' c'} d'4 d'4
The property tupletSpannerDuration
specifies how long each
bracket should last. With this, you can make lots of tuplets while
typing \times
only once, saving lots of typing. In the next
example, there are two triplets shown, while \times
was only
used once:
\property Voice.tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) \times 2/3 { c'8 c c c c c }
The format of the number is determined by the property
tupletNumberFormatFunction
. The default prints only the
denominator, but if it is set to the Scheme function
fraction-tuplet-formatter
, num:den will be printed
instead.
\tupletUp
,
\tupletDown
,
\tupletBoth
.
Nested tuplets are not formatted automatically. In this case, outer tuplet brackets should be moved manually.
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).