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Trills

Short trills without an extender line are printed with \trill; see Articulations and ornamentations.

Longer trills with an extender line are made with \startTrillSpan and \stopTrillSpan:

     
     d1~\startTrillSpan
     d1
     c2\stopTrillSpan r2

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In the following example, a trill is combined with grace notes. The syntax of this construct and the method to precisely position the grace notes are described in Grace notes.

     
     c1 \afterGrace
     d1\startTrillSpan { c32[ d]\stopTrillSpan }
     e2 r2

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Trills that require an auxiliary note with an explicit pitch can be typeset with the \pitchedTrill command. The first argument is the main note, and the second is the trilled note, printed as a stemless note head in parentheses.

     
     \pitchedTrill e2\startTrillSpan fis
     d\stopTrillSpan

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In the following example, the second pitched trill is ambiguous; the accidental of the trilled note is not printed. As a workaround, the accidentals of the trilled notes can be forced. The second measure illustrates this method:

     
     \pitchedTrill eis4\startTrillSpan fis
     g\stopTrillSpan
     \pitchedTrill eis4\startTrillSpan fis
     g\stopTrillSpan
     \pitchedTrill eis4\startTrillSpan fis
     g\stopTrillSpan
     \pitchedTrill eis4\startTrillSpan fis!
     g\stopTrillSpan

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Predefined commands

\startTrillSpan, \stopTrillSpan.

See also

Music Glossary: trill.

Notation Reference: Articulations and ornamentations, Grace notes.

Snippets: Expressive marks.

Internals Reference: TrillSpanner.

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