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1.3.3.3 Trills

Short trills are printed with \trill like normal articulation; see Articulations and ornamentations.

Long running trills are made with \startTrillSpan and \stopTrillSpan. In the following example, it is shown in the common combination with grace notes. If a more precise control of the placement of the grace notes is needed, see Grace notes.

     
     c1 \afterGrace
     d1\startTrillSpan { c16[\stopTrillSpan d] }
     c4

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Trills that should be executed on an explicitly specified pitch can be typeset with the command pitchedTrill, and the syntax \pitchedTrill mainnote\startTrillSpan trillnote endnote \stopTrillSpan.

     
     \pitchedTrill e2 \startTrillSpan fis
     d\stopTrillSpan

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The first argument is the main note. The pitch of the second is printed as a stemless note head in parentheses.

Predefined commands

\startTrillSpan, \stopTrillSpan.

See also

Snippets: Expressive

Internals Reference: TrillSpanner.


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