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Engraving music using Scheme expressions

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Revision as of 18:49, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

You can engrave music using just Scheme expressions. Although those expressions reflect the inner mechanism of LilyPond, they are rather clumsy to use, so avoid them, if possible.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=122


#(define (make-note-req p d)
   (make-music 'NoteEvent
    'duration d
    'pitch p))

#(define (make-note elts)
   (make-music 'EventChord
    'elements elts))

#(define (seq-music-list elts)
   (make-music 'SequentialMusic
    'elements elts))

fooMusic = #(seq-music-list
             (list (make-note (list (make-note-req (ly:make-pitch 1 0 0) (ly:make-duration 2 0))))
                   (make-note (list (make-note-req (ly:make-pitch 1 1 0) (ly:make-duration 2 0))))))
     
\score { 
  \fooMusic 
}