Questions tagged [music]
{music} is about ways of typesetting music in LaTeX text. Add the tag {lilypond} for questions concerning LilyPond or lilypond-book.
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MusixTex: notes not appearing on the first stave
I'm just beginning to find my way around MusixTex, but I can't get the first notes to work. The first line is drawn fully below the stave, barlines and all, and it's all out of alignment. I've tried ...
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LyLuaTex padding issues
Music in LyLuaTex output has extra horizontal padding to the left, making the music "indented" relative to the document.
% !TEX TS-program = LuaLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\title{lyLua\...
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How do I include the musical symbol for half-flat?
I cannot find the musical symbol for semi-flat. This is a reversed flat symbol. Where can I find this symbol?
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xstring testing: help needed for testing chords typeset with leadsheets package
For a personal songbook project I use the leadsheets package. Later on, I want to automatically typeset guitar chord diagrams based on the chords of a song, even if the song is transposed via the ...
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NiceTabular and \multicolumn issue with column separators
I want to create a custom environment für typesetting chord symbols in a table with automatic column width of the widest row and they must be separated by | to mimic a bar line.
Sometimes, one line in ...
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How to automatically align and center a string of chord diagrams with a word beneath?
The following code, when compiled, produces two side-by-side chord diagrams with the word 'Major' off-center beneath. Is there an automatic way to get the word perfectly centered below the chords?
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How to change position of `musicography` characters?
I want to display some musical notes inside normal text in a latex document.
This is the piece of code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{...
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How to draw the last fret with gchords package?
Is there a way to modify the gchords package output so that there is a horizontal line closing off the last fret?
Here is an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gchords}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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Placing text above \meterfrac numbers in MusiXTeX
I'm looking for a solution like \ccharnote but for placing text above meter numbers. I read the documentation but didn't find anything.
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How to align text with the bottom of another object
I have these chord-patterns and I want to add some text next to them. The problem is that it's aligned to the top. I feel like there should be an straight-forward way of aligning it to the bottom or ...
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How to make all staff notation in LaTeX?
I want to use LaTeX, to make Unicode of staff notation!
Look at the picture below:
All I want to do is LaTeX + Unicode!
I hope you can make it!
The Unicode URL is here, go check it out: https://www....
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How to convert MIDI to MusiXTeX with LaTeX?
For example, I want to convert MIDI to MusiXTeX staves!
But I really don't know how to do it, do let me know if you do!
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Are there similar documents in English about "How to integrate music examples with open source tools in scientific documents"?
By chance I encountered this tutorial in German: "Musikwissenschaft mit LATEX". It investigates on 121 pages various ways to typeset notes and scientific notations. In contrast to ...
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How can I write a simple cadence with lilyglyphs?
I want to write a simple cadence with lilyglyphs with a Cadential Six-Four chord. How do i do it? Here is a picture of the needed result:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{...
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How to make note bigger (musicography)?
How do I adjust the size of the dotted quaver note (I use the musicography package, but it could be any other package that is easy to use.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{musicography}
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Music Typesetting Inside LaTeX Alternatives
As background: I'm a physicist who's very comfortable with LaTeX, and usually use the MiKTeX distribution primarily due to ease of installing packages on the fly compared with TeX Live. As for LaTeX, ...
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Undefined control sequence with chordbox
I am trying to use the package chordbox, but the following basic example
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{chordbox}
\begin{document}
\chordbox{Am}{x,0,2,2,1,0}
\end{document}
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Custom bracket and arrow symbols (jazz music notation)
I am trying to create a custom command for jazz music notation, like the arrow and brackets below:
I managed to create the following custom commands
\newcommand{\bracket}{$\underbracket{\phantom{...}}...
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byzantinemusic package issue with BZ-fonts
I am trying to use this package called byzantinemusic. It says I need byzantinemusic package and BZ-fonts and run XeLaTeX engine. I have a problem with BZ-fonts. I downladed the BZ-fonts from here, ...
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Guitar chord diagram
I would like to display chord diagram for guitar. I found the gchords package, but it displays some disgracing glitches:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gchords}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{...
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Very short piece of music as high-res image
I am trying to include a very short piece of musical score (five line stave, 10 notes) into a document of mine. Unfortunately I only have a low-res image (see attached), which is not suitable for ...
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Single-line musical score with text to notate prosodic rhythm
How can I have a single line musical score only to notate the quantity of each note and pauses? I've looked into some packages, but most of them only type entire traditional 5 lines score; I also ...
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Slur over multiple columns in a table
How do I extend the slur to extend over entries in multiple columns in tabular environment i.e. I want to do &\slur{P &M &G} with 3 columns having entries P, M and G and the slur extending ...
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How to produce multistave music using abc notation in a document?
I have been trying to get the package '''abc''' to produce multistave music notation within a document. If possible I'd like to find a solution using this rather than, for instance, LilyPond. After ...
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Insert colored music notes in text
In text I want to insert colored music notes. I tried with Lilyglyphs package (see below), but it seems not possible. In Lilyglyphs, notes are precompiled pdf which are simply inserted. Is there any ...
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Are Donald Knuth's music sheets written in TeX? [closed]
Donald Knuth composed a work for pipe organ “Fantasia Apocalyptica”
He has published the sheets on his website but I was wondering if they were typesetted using TEX or some other software (lilypond or ...
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LaTeX for Music vs Finale26 Make Music [closed]
What are the differences between LaTeX for Music (consider the best list of packages) and Finale26 Make Music?
Furthermore on Overleaf, for example, is it possible listen to music?
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How do I add slurs (as in music notation) to top of the words in a text? [added follow-up]
I searched this forum and found a similar question here: Adding slurs to words in a text
This describes how to add slurs at the bottom of a group of text characters using tikz package.
I want to do ...
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Musixtex bars don't align in vertical
I'm using musixetx to put music for a uni paper, and I need to put this as an example between text. The trouble is that bar and bar lines are not aligned. How can I align them?
Thank you so much!
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Music symbols from LilyGlyphs package not working in XeLaTeX
I want to insert a few Music symbols (defined in the lilyglyphs package) using XeLaTeX. The following MWE used to compile fine and get the symbols in Ubuntu 18.04 (with TeXLive running, using the sudo ...
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Draw a tikz complete 12 nodes directed graph
I need to draw a graph based on music theory using Tikz. As said in the titled, it's a 12 node, complete, directed graph. Nodes must be labeled according to musical notes and edges must be labeled ...
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How to make longtable with a very long text?
I want to make a longtable out of this file.
For starters, I've tried to do this:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, onecolumn, oneside, final]{report}
\makeatother
\usepackage{array}
\setlength\...
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Compilation errors after importing the musixtex package
I have a problem with my LaTeX project. After I import the musixtex package, I'm suddenly getting compilation errors regarding bibliography, something that I don't think is relevant to the musixtex ...
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How to use package is part of texlive-music for write V and R of Versicle and Response?
I need only the traditional V and R characters for Versicle and Response. In this answer is recommended to use the gregoriotex package.
When trying to install it on Ubuntu, the message from TexLive ...
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Draw the clamp on guitar chord diagram with GChords
I'm trying to generate guitar chords, everything is fine until I arrived to Do#m. Here is my snippet:
\begin{document}
\mediumchords
\chords{
\chord{4}{x,f1p1,f3p3,f4p3,f2p2,f1p1}{Do\#m (C\#m)}
}
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Guitar Strumming Pattern in Latex
I want to make a guitar song book with Latex and i would like to add some Strumming Patterns. Do anybody have a idea how to make Strumming Pattern with the Arrows up and down and the numbers under ...
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Bad alignment with MusiXTeX
I used the following code to typeset a music sheet:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{musixtex}
\begin{document}
\begin{music}
\startextract
\Notes \ibl0{'b}0 \qb0{_cbb} \...
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Music notation via latex / pandoc markdown [duplicate]
I like how you can embed equations in pandoc-flavored markdown, by putting the equation in between dollar signs, like this:
$$ \int^{+\infty}_0 \frac{\cos(x)}{\sqrt{x}} dx$$
(see how it renders here: ...
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Align musical sheet bar lines with table columns
This is kind of a very obscure question, but I'll try anyways. How do I typeset musical notes so that the bars separating them align with a table below? I've tried lilypond, and I've tried various ...
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Text with chords for guitar in Italian language [duplicate]
I would to write the words of a song (for example "Immensamente" of the singer-songwriter Umberto Tozzi) with a typewriter font, with manual hyphenation, but the top should adopt either a ...
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How to use lyLuaTeX?
I am trying to use lyLuaTeX but it is not working. I've read the documentation but I don't understand how to get it to work.
I am on Windows 10, using TeX Live (first comment). Here is what I am ...
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Musixtex, drum notation, special symbol to represent rolls
I need to write some snare music, and I need for the symbol used to define a roll that is illustrated in the picture below as special note with the two diagonal segments.
Any help ? I need to define a ...
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How to insert a musical symbol in Tikz with lilyglyphs?
I want to insert a musical symbol (fermata) in a Tikz picture, using lilyglyphs package. This is my code :
\documentclass[symmetric,justified,marginals=raggedouter]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{lilyglyphs}...
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Packages and classes for libretti and music
Can you recommend ideal packages and classes for writing libretti in LaTeX? Also, can one include staff notation for music in LaTeX? If so, what are the classes and packages required?
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how to change size of guitar chord diagrams?
For fun and profit I'm typesetting the first 4 chords the book I'm reading to learn the guitar recommends practicing, however I find hard to change the size of the diagrams, so they are very visible ...
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No "maj13" chords within leadsheets package
So I'm trying to finish my master's thesis with the leadsheets package. So far everything works fine, but I seem to not being able to get "major13" chords to display correctly as superscripted "maj13" ...
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insertion of musical rhythm cell in a text - special characters?
I'm writing a document using \documentclass{tufte-book}
How can I insert in a text special characters specific to music (rhythm cells corresponding to : double eighth note, two eighth notes, black). ...
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Musical symbols from Lilyglyphs in Tikz
What do I need to work with tikz and lilyglyphs (and spanish babel)? Lilyglyphs doesn't work for me in this example. I use LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017 / Debian)
Another problem in this code ...
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Drawing a piano diagram with tikz
This and this answer provide a beautiful code to draw a piano with it's range. I tried to learn them to draw a simple and plain piano diagram with key-names (A, B, C, C#) written on the keys, but the ...
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How to write music notes with LaTeX [duplicate]
How to write this musician notes with LaTeX?
Please give me some examples and instructions.
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