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Adding articulation marks using Scheme (simple)

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Revision as of 18:55, 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)

Using make-music, you can add various stuff to notes. In this example staccato dots are added to the notes. For this simple case, it is not necessary to use scm constructs.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=82
%% see also https://github.com/lilypond/lilypond/blob/master/scm/music-functions.scm#L2036

#(define (make-script x)
   (make-music 'ArticulationEvent
               'articulation-type x))

#(define (add-script m x)
   (case (ly:music-property m 'name)
     ((NoteEvent) (set! (ly:music-property m 'articulations)
                      (append (ly:music-property m 'articulations)
                         (list (make-script x))))
                   m)
     ((EventChord)(set! (ly:music-property m 'elements)
                      (append (ly:music-property m 'elements)
                         (list (make-script x))))
                   m)
     (else #f)))

#(define (add-staccato m)
         (add-script m 'staccato))

addStacc = #(define-music-function (music)
                 (ly:music?)
           (map-some-music add-staccato music))
           
%%% ............................................

\score {
   \relative c'' {
     c c c c
     \addStacc { c\p <c e> c-> c }
   }
}