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2.8.6.1 Annotational accidentals

In European music from before about 1600, singers were often expected to chromatically alter notes at their own initiative. This is called musica ficta. In modern transcriptions, these accidentals are usually printed over the note.

Support for such suggested accidentals is included, and can be switched on by setting suggestAccidentals to true.

fis gis
\set suggestAccidentals = ##t
ais bis

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This will treat every subsequent accidental as musica ficta until it is unset with \set suggestAccidentals = ##f. A more convenient way is to use \once:

fis gis
\once \set suggestAccidentals = ##t
ais ais bis

[image of music]

See also

Internals Reference: Accidental_engraver engraver and the AccidentalSuggestion object.

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