connecting and controlling digital instruments. A MIDI file is like a
tape recording of a MIDI instrument.
-To create a MIDI from a music piece of music, add a
-@code{\midi} block causes LilyPond to create a MIDI file, so you
-can listen to the music you entered. It is great for checking the
-music: octaves that are off or accidentals that were mistyped stand
-out very much when listening to the musical transcription.
+To create a MIDI from a music piece of music, add a @code{\midi}
+block. This causes LilyPond to create a MIDI file, so you can listen
+to what you just entered. It is great for checking the music.
+Octaves that are off or accidentals that were mistyped stand out very
+much when listening to the musical transcription.
The @code{\midi} block is added to @code{\score}, for example,
@cindex multiple voices
@cindex voices, more -- on a staff
When different melodic lines are combined on a single staff they are
-printed as polyphonic voices: each voice has its own stems, slurs and
+printed as polyphonic voices; each voice has its own stems, slurs and
beams, and the top voice has the stems up, while the bottom voice has
them down.
{ r4 g4 f2 f4 } >>
@end lilypond
-For polyphonic music typesetting, spacer rests can also be convenient: these
+For polyphonic music typesetting, spacer rests can also be convenient; these
are rests that do not print. It is useful for filling up voices that
temporarily do not play. Here is the same example with a spacer rest
instead of a normal rest---just use @samp{s} instead of @samp{r}
@node An orchestral part
@section An orchestral part
-In orchestral music, all notes are printed twice: in a part for
+In orchestral music, all notes are printed twice; in a part for
the musicians, and in a full score for the conductor. Identifiers can
-be used to avoid double work: the music is entered once, and stored in
+be used to avoid double work. The music is entered once, and stored in
a variable. The contents of that variable is then used to generate
both the part and the score.
substitutes the contents of @file{horn-music.ly} at this position in
the file, so @code{hornNotes} is defined afterwards. The command
@code{\transpose f@tie{}c'} indicates that the argument, being
-@code{\hornNotes}, should be transposed by a fifth downwards: sounding
+@code{\hornNotes}, should be transposed by a fifth downwards. Sounding
@samp{f} is denoted by notated @code{c'}, which corresponds with
tuning of a normal French Horn in@tie{}F. The transposition can be seen
in the following output
\end@{lilypond@}
\noindent
-In this example two things happened: a
+In this example two things happened. A
\verb+\score+ block was added, and the line width was set to natural
length.
@end lilypond
@noindent
-In this example two things happened: a
+In this example two things happened. A
@code{score} block was added, and the line width was set to natural
length.
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