{music} is about ways of typesetting music in LaTeX text. Add the tag {lilypond} for questions concerning LilyPond or lilypond-book.
music is about ways of typesetting music in LaTeX using, for example, the lilypond software.
Questions tagged [music]
122 questions
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Can I create music sheets with LaTeX?
If so, how? Do I need any additional software?
txwikinger
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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 classical music notation
songbook for lyrics+chords…
Mirek Kratochvil
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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 the annotation.
Here is what I've done so…
cjorssen
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"roof" over numbers
I'm writing a musicology paper and need some roman/schenkerian analysis tools. Notice the image, the "roof" over the numbers? How to produce this?
Buschmann
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How to write the music symbols in TeX?
I want to write some music symbols in TeX.
How should I write the Bémol, dièse symbols in TeX?
Davood
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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} \tbl0\qb0a \enotes
\endextract
…
user227615
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Can I add music/rythm notations in text?
I'm trying to write a text describing a short musical excerpt and I'd like to mention that a particular theme follows a given rhythm.
But instead of just saying something along the lines of "we have a 2 quarter-note, double note rythm that…
RoB
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How would I make this image? (A type of music notation)
I was wondering if anyone knew how to make music notation that looks like the below:
I'm not even sure where to start with this kind of thing, I've tried doing it by hand before in Inkscape, but I did not find that easy, algorithmic, or…
user41692
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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 other package who can insert music notes inside…
Phantom
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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 on the paper and I don't have to squint my…
shackra
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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, and installed them on my system. Then in the…
BlackMath
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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 printing.
What's the best/quickest way to recreate…
Ingmar
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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)}
}
\end{document}
Which outputs:
on this case,…
shackra
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Unable to get abc package to work on windows
I am trying to typeset some music in Latex. I will likely only need to do this once, so the relatively simple syntax of abc seemed perfect. Except that I cannot get it to work.
I have installed the abc package. I set the --shell-escape option for…
Dominika
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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…
Noah J
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