Unanswered Questions
606 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Horizontal arrow protruding from a note
I've found some notation that I'm not familiar with in the violin part for the musical Tuck Everlasting. It's a horizontal arrow that starts at the stem of a note and points rightward along the staff:
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Top-down strokes versus side strokes: what is the most ergonomic drum style between tabla or mridangam/pakhawaj?
Tablas are hand drums that comes by pair which the 2 skins are (nearly) horizontally oriented with the hand moving from top to down, while mridangam/pakhawaj/dol/dolak are hand drums which the 2 skins ...
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LilyPond - "Table of Contents" TOC in different languages
I am working on a music-book using LilyPond with different languages (here English and German). I created a minimal working example (MWE) referring to a snippet that can be found here in the LilyPond ...
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Stop Lilypond from generating multiple files
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems like a lot of people are using Lilypond here.
Every time I compile a .ly file using lilypond for Windows10 it generates too many files. ...
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FL Studio: Deciding the synthesizer for a notebased on its MIDI channel
Is it possible to, using a patcher channel, play notes of one midi channel through one synthesizer, and play notes of another midi channel through another synthesizer?
Example: I have a basic melody, ...
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Is there a compositional term for an introductory variation on a larger theme?
I’ve noticed that in some music spaces, specifically entertainment and gaming, composers rely heavily on character or main themes as recurring motifs. One such instance I’ve heard recently involves ...
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How was mixolidian mode introduced in Northeastern Brazilian Music?
Northeastern region of Brazil has a great variety of traditional and folkloric music genres. The most well-known genre is forró, followed also by baião and xaxado.
These music genres are usually ...
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Aligning staves across pages in Lilypond
I'm looking for a way to align staves in Lilypond such that the bars are at the same height on different pages.
A somewhat contrived example to show the effect:
\version "2.24.0"
\paper {
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Do 20th- and 21st-century concerti still follow the expected forms of the 18th and 19th centuries?
When looking at opening movements of instrumental concerti in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we see a pretty standard alternation of ritornello (orchestral-focused) and solo sections. These ...
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Did American drum corps ever utilize the tuning slide of valveless bugles for more notes?
I used to be a member of my school's drum and bugle corps in middle school whose entire brass section is composed of US regulation bugles in G (if I'm not mistaken) which are are valveless. They used ...
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Is there a list of Just Intonation chords as defined by Fétis, using ratios?
One way of ‘spelling’ chords in just intonation is using ratios - such as 10:12:14:17 (multiplications of the frequency of an implied ‘missing fundamental’). Fétis is quoted in Wikipedia (and here by ...
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VST User Interface Not Showing
I'm using Live 10 64-bit. I'm using a free plugin called Synth1 but when I load it to a MIDI track I cannot see the plugin user interface. I tried Ctrl + Alt + P and clicking on the wrench icon. Even ...
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How to see all controls linked to automation clip in FL Studio 20?
I know how to find and setup automation links in Remote control settings of control.
I also know about Current project/Initialized controls list, where i can find list of all automated controls in ...
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Building Registration Banks
I have a PSR-S950. I have already stored the 8 voices in the keyboard. According to the books I should be able to store 8 additional in the next Bank #2 than another 8 voices in the next Bank #3 etc....
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I want the note middle-C to be denoted in bass clef in GarageBand
I'm trying to generate a PDF of music sheet with GarageBand, but there's a problem.
Even though I play an arpeggio F-A-C-E-G, the note C3 (middle-C) is denoted in treble clef.1 Even if I moved it down ...
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