bengtsson-funcion-tresillos.ly

   1 % Many many thanks to Mats for this useful snippet!
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   4 % First version, with a single argument, i.e. the
   5 % syntax is \triplet{ c d e }
   6 triplet = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
   7   #{ \times 2/3 $music #})
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  10 % Second version, with three arguments, i.e. the
  11 % syntax is \trip c d e
  12 trip = #(define-music-function (parser location m1 m2 m3)
  13   (ly:music? ly:music? ly:music?)
  14   #{ \times 2/3 { $m1 $m2 $m3 } #})
  15
  16 \score{
  17   \relative c'{
  18     % Using \triplet
  19     c4 \triplet{ d8 e f } g4 \triplet{ f8 e d16 e } |
  20     % Using \trip. Note the last beat, where you have to
  21     % add curly braces to get exactly three arguments to \trip
  22     c4 \trip d8 e f g4 \trip f8 e { d16 e } |
  23   }
  24 }
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