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Figured bass

LilyPond has limited support for figured bass:

     <
      \context FiguredBass
        \figures {
     	<_! 3+ 5- >4
     	< [4 6] 8 >
        }
      \context Voice { c4 g8 }
     >
     
[picture of music]

The support for figured bass consists of two parts: there is an input mode, introduced by \figures, where you can enter bass figures as numbers, and there is a context called FiguredBass

that takes care of making BassFigure objects.

In figures input mode, a group of bass figures is delimited by < and >. The duration is entered after the >.

     	<4 6>
     
[picture of music]

Accidentals are added to the numbers if you alterate them by appending -, ! and +.

       <4- 6+ 7!>
     
[picture of music]

Spaces or dashes may be inserted by using _. Brackets are introduced with [ and ].

     	< [4 6] 8 [_ 12]>
     
[picture of music]

Although the support for figured bass may superficially resemble chord support, it works much simpler: in figured bass simply stores the numbers, and then prints the numbers you entered. There is no conversion to pitches, and no realizations of the bass are played in the MIDI file.

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