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Dynamics spanner with custom text (2)

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Revision as of 14:10, 3 December 2025 by Lemzwerg (talk | contribs) (remove this from the official documentation since there is a very similar snippet)

Custom text spanners can be defined and used with hairpin and text crescendos. \< and \> produce hairpins by default, \cresc, etc., produce text spanners by default.

\version "2.24"

% Some sample text dynamic spanners, to be used as postfix operators
crpoco =
#(make-music 'CrescendoEvent
             'span-direction START
             'span-type 'text
             'span-text "cresc. poco a poco")

\relative c' {
  c4\cresc d4 e4 f4 |
  g4 a4\! b4\crpoco c4 |
  c4 d4 e4 f4 |
  g4 a4\! b4\< c4 |
  g4\dim a4 b4\decresc c4\!
}