Intermediate-level contexts – staves

Staff ¶

Handles clefs, bar lines, keys, accidentals. It can contain Voice contexts.

RhythmicStaff ¶

Like Staff but for printing rhythms. Pitches are ignored when engraving; the notes are printed on one line. The MIDI rendition retains pitches unchanged.

TabStaff ¶

Context for generating tablature. It accepts only TabVoice contexts and handles the line spacing, the tablature clef, etc., properly.

DrumStaff ¶

Handles typesetting for percussion. Can contain DrumVoice.

VaticanaStaff ¶

A kind of Staff for typesetting Gregorian chant in a notational style approximating Editio Vaticana.

MensuralStaff ¶

Same as Staff context, except that it is accommodated for typesetting a piece in mensural style.

PetrucciStaff ¶

A kind of Staff approximating the mensural typesetting of Ottaviano Petrucci’s Harmonices Musices Odhecaton (Venice, 1501).

KievanStaff ¶

Same as Staff context, except that it is accommodated for typesetting a piece in Kievan style.

GregorianTranscriptionStaff ¶

A staff for notating Gregorian chant in modern style.

ChordGrid ¶

Creates chord grid notation. This context is always part of a ChordGridScore context.

StandaloneRhythmStaff ¶

A Staff-level context for use by \markup \rhythm.

FretBoards ¶

A context for displaying fret diagrams.

Devnull ¶

Silently discard all musical information given to this context.