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3.14.11 Quoting other voices

With quotations, fragments of other parts can be inserted into a part directly. Before a part can be quoted, it must be marked especially as quotable. This is done with code \addquote command. The quotation may then be done with \quote

     \addquote name music
     \quote name duration

Here, name is an identifying string. The music is any kind of music. This is an example of \addquote

\addquote clarinet \notes\relative c' {
  f4 fis g gis
}

During a part, a piece of music can be quoted with the \quote command.

     \quote clarinet 2.

This would cite 3 quarter notes (a dotted half note) of the previously added clarinet voice.

Quotations take into account the transposition both source and target instruments, if they are specified using the \transposition command.

     \addquote clarinet \notes\relative c' {
       \transposition bes
       f4 fis g gis
     }
     \score {
       \notes {
       e'8 f'8 \quote clarinet 2
     } }

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Bugs

Only the contents of the first Voice occurring in an \addquote command will be considered for quotation, so music can not contain \new and \context Voice statements that would switch to a different Voice.

See also

In this manual: Instrument transpositions.

Examples: input/regression/quote.ly input/regression/quote-transposition.ly

Program reference: QuoteMusic.

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