{music} is about ways of typesetting music in LaTeX text.
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How to make a two bar duevolte?
How do I make a duevolte that repeats the two preceding bars, with a double diagonal line and a big "2" above it, like the right one in this image:
The left one is \duevolte, but I can't figure ...
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How to typeset music dynamics within normal text
Although it should be possible to create a single musical dynamic symbol (like ff for fortissimo or sfz for sforzato) by creating an in-line lilypond-book fragment, hiding the staff etc. and somehow ...
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Type1 fonts and musixtex
Thanks to @cgnieder, I can now typeset the full range of a piano. Now, I'd like to use the utopia-mathdesign package.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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Range of a piano : annotate note frequency
I'd like to draw something like this for the piano, but with all notes explicitly draw and labelled with its frequency. I use for the first time the musixtex package so I have no idea how to automate ...
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Beamer + MusixTex
can I use MusixTex with beamer class? It doesn't work for me, only with article. With beamer there are a lot of errors (more then 50). Thanks for advice.
This is without errors:
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Typesetting the entire Song That Never Ends
I've heard that LaTeX (and for that matter TeX) are Turing-complete, so it should be possible to produce an infinite loop. And indeed, a quick search reveals several questions in which users have ...
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How to play background music across multiple slides when making a beamer presentation?
I made a LaTeX beamer presentation and I would like to add background music to some of the slides. I did manage to play something using the media9 package, but only on a single slide, i.e. the sound ...
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Meter signature in text
I want to mention musical piece meter directly in the text, like:
This piece is written in 4/4.
Is there a way to get time signature (4/4) in form of fraction with no fraction bar?
I tried musixtex ...
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Searching a musical quarter note symbol to insert into text
I want to simple write a musical quarter note in text. I however know that there is the \textmusicalnode available. But this does not give me a quarter note.
The usage of e.g. the harmony or wasysym ...
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textcomp's \textmusicalnote doesn't work: “cannot open encoding file for reading”
I'd like to put a music note as an icon next to notes in my document. I discovered the \textmusicalnote symbol in the textcomp package, but it doesn't seem to render.
I suspect I'm doing something ...
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How do I put a musical clef in a memoir-class document?
I've got a lot of questions about preparing a book layout, but as I'm slowly going through the various books and other documents out there, I think most of the questions are being answered. However, ...
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Set music in LaTeX with ABC or LilyPond?
I’ll give a tutorial, “LaTeX for musicians”, in the next year and certainly I want the to show how to include music in their texts. I’m a musician myself but I never used LaTeX to typeset music.
I ...
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Adding slurs to words in a text
Friends, I have a special case in which I need to insert slurs (music) in some words in a text. A slur is a curved line connecting notes on a score to indicate that they are to be played or sung ...
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Creating a custom songbook with the songs package
Friends, I usually create songbooks with the help of songs package (I guess the CTAN version is a little old, the newest one can be downloaded from here). Consider the follow example (taken from the ...
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New bib(la)tex-entrytype for music-scores
Short question: How can I create a new entry type (@music) with fields for the composer, title, opus, editor, series, location and year?
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@music{citekey,
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Quartertone symbols
Does anyone know if there is any package that provides the quartertone sharps and flats symbols? (I've already checked the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List and couldn't find them.)
The symbols can be ...
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Guitar tablatures typesetting?
So I kindof wanted to leave old and ugly ascii-art tabs and produce something nice, but found there's probably no method to typeset actual guitar tabs in TeX.
All I found was:
MusiXTeX for ...
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How can I put musical clefs in the middle of text?
I'm setting a document that includes some music; I'm using lilypond-book for the musical examples. However, there are some points where the author has inserted a musical symbol in the text; I'm using ...
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Solfa style music notation (Carnatic)
I'm looking for a way to typeset Carnatic (Indian) music. The notation system is textual, similar to solfa, with some symbols like comma, semi-colon and | for durations, and bar lines.
Fine control ...
