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5.16.2 Ancient accidentals

Use the style property of grob Accidental (lilypond-internals) 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 (lilypond-internals) grob.

See also

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

Program reference: KeySignature (lilypond-internals) .

Examples: input/test/ancient-accidentals.ly.

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