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LilyPond music properties

alternatives (music):

Music_sequence of alternatives for repeated music.

articulation-type (symbol):

key for scriptDefinitions alist

bass (boolean):

Set if this note is a bass note in a chord

body (music):

The body of a repeat

cautionary (boolean):

If set, this alteration needs cautionary accidental

change-to-id (string):

name of the context to change to

change-to-type (string):

type of the context to change to.

context-id (string):

name of context

context-type (string):

type of context

denominator (integer):

denominator in a time signature

direction (direction):

Print this up or down?

duration (duration):

Duration of this note/lyric.

element (music):

The single child of a Music_wrapper music object.

elements (list):

A list of elements for sequential of simultaneous music

force-accidental (boolean):

If set, a cautionary accidental should always be printed on this note

grob-property (symbol):

The symbol of the grob property to set.

grob-value (any type):

The value of the grob property to set

inversion (boolean):

If set, this chord note is inverted.

iterator-ctor (unknown):

Function to construct music-event-iterator object for this Music

label (string):

label of a mark.

last-pitch (unknown):

The last pitch after relativization.

length (procedure):

How to compute the duration of this music

lyrics (music):

second argument of a addlyrics

metronome-count (number):

How many beats in a minute?

numerator (integer):

numerator of a time signature

one (music):

first argument of partcombine.

origin (input location):

where was this piece of music defined?

penalty (number):

Penalty for break hint.

pitch (unknown):

the pitch of this note

pitch-alist (list):

list of pitches jointly forming the scale of a key signature

predicate (procedure):

the predicate of a outputproperty

repeat-count (integer):

do a epeat how ofen?

span-direction (direction):

Does this start or stop a spanner?

span-type (symbol):

What kind of spanner should be created?

symbols (list):

List of Grob names (symbols) to perform an override/revert on.

text (string):

markup expression to be printed

text-type (symbol):

Particular type of text script (eg. finger, dynamic).

tremolo-type (integer):

two (music):

2nd argument of a part-combine

type (symbol):

The type of this music object. Determines iteration in some cases.

what (string):

What to change for auto-change. FIXME, naming

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