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Tuplets
Tuplets are made out of a music expression by multiplying all durations with a fraction.
\times fraction musicexpr
The duration of musicexpr will be multiplied by the fraction. In the sheet music, the fraction's denominator will be printed over the notes, optionally with a bracket. The most common tuplet is the triplet in which 3 notes have the length of 2, so the notes are 2/3 of their written length:
g'4 \times 2/3 {c'4 c' c'} d'4 d'4
![[picture of music]](lily-729925820.png)
The property tupletSpannerDuration specifies how long each bracket
should last. With this, you can make lots of tuplets while typing
\times only once, saving you lots of typing.
\property Voice.tupletSpannerDuration = #(make-moment 1 4)
\times 2/3 { c'8 c c c c c }
![[picture of music]](lily-2126424373.png)
The format of the number is determined by the property
tupletNumberFormatFunction. The default prints only the
denominator, but if you set it to the Scheme function
fraction-tuplet-formatter, Lilypond will print num:den
instead.
See also TupletBracket .
BUGS
Nested tuplets are not formatted automatically. In this case, outer tuplet brackets should be moved automatically.
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