The term ambitus denotes a range of pitches for a given voice in a part of music. It also may denote the pitch range that a musical instrument is capable of playing. Ambituses are printed on vocal parts, so singers can easily determine if it meets his or her capabilities.
It denoted at the beginning of a piece near the initial clef. The range is graphically specified by two note heads, that represent the minimum and maximum pitch. To print such ambituses, add the Ambitus_engraver to the Voice context, for example,
\paper { \context { \VoiceContext \consists Ambitus_engraver } }
This results in the following output
If you have multiple voices in a single staff, and you want a single ambitus per staff rather than per each voice, add the Ambitus_engraver to the Staff context rather than to the Voice context.
It is possible to tune individual ambituses for multiple voices on a single staff, for example by erasing or shifting them horizontally. An example is in input/test/ambitus-mixed.ly.
Program reference: Ambitus.
Examples: input/regression/ambitus.ly, input/test/ambitus-mixed.ly.
There is no collision handling in the case of multiple per-voice ambitus.
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