User:Astronouth7303/LilyPond

% Theme to "Fire Breathers", a homebrew NES game under development. Composed % by Urpo Lankinen.

% Note: The composer has made available the following source code to % the Wikipedia article under GFDL license. Other versions of this song, % which are available outside Wikipedia and its GFDL-permitted % mirrors/derivants, are typically under CC BY-SA license.

% The version directive identifies the Lilypond syntax version. % This particular source file works in Lilypond 2.2.x. % Typically, there are large changes in syntax (usually for better!) % between the major releases. % The convert-ly program can be used to automatically transform the source % code to most recent version. \version "2.2.0"

% This library file makes Lilypond use the Finnish note names % (for example, where Americans use "F#" and "Bb", Finns use % "Fis" and "B"). Danish note names are used by default. Other % national conventions are supported! \include "suomi.ly"

% The header part is used to control the texts added to the final output. \header { title = "Theme to ``Fire Breathers!''" instrument = "For the 2A03 or SID" composer = "Urpo Lankinen" enteredby = "Urpo Lankinen" date = "June 2004" }

% Here is the main melody. The character | is used for a bar check; % it's also a convenient way to display where the bars are. As you can see, % the notes are simply entered with their real names, followed by number that % shows their length. The note can have ' or, in it, meaning a leap % of octave up or down. (This tune uses relative note entry mode, which % you can also explicitly note each note's octave, for example, % c' is middle C.) As expected, a period adds a. to the note. % Parentheses show start and end of slurs, brackets show start and end % of 8th-note beams. (The beaming can be done automatically too!) % Notes are tied with ~. The "r" note is a rest. (and "h" is "b" in English.)

Melody = \notes \relative c'' { \clef treble \time 3/4 \key a \minor

% The piece starts with a quarter-note partial bar, "\partial 4" % tells so to Lilypond. \partial 4 a4 | e'4.( d8[ c]) r8 | d4.( c8[ h]) r8 | a2. | e2   a4 | e'4.( d8[ c]) r8 | d4.( e8[ f]) r8 | e2. | r2   e4 |  f4.( e8[ d]) r8 | d4.( c8[ h]) r8 | a2. | e2   a4 | e'4.( d8[ c]) r8 | d4.( c8[ h]) r8 | a2. ~ a2 r4 | \bar "|." }

% This is the second voice.

SecondVoice = \notes \relative c { \clef bass \time 3/4 \key a \minor

\partial 4 r4 | e2. | d2. | a2. | e2   a4 | e'2. | d2      f4     | e2. | r2. | f2. | d2. | a2. | e2   a4 | e'2. | d2      h4     | a2. ~ a2 r4 | \bar "|." }

% And now for something really cool... % You can write a lot of different kinds of things easily - melodies, % lyrics, chords, everything. The interesting bit is that they can % always be *reused* elsewhere! Here, I define three different % accompaniment patterns, then use them throughout the accompaniment % melody.

AccompA = \notes \relative c { a4 e'8 a, e' a, | } AccompB = \notes \relative c { g4 d'8 g, d' g, | } AccompC = \notes \relative c { e,4 h'8 e, h' e, | }

Accompaniment = \notes \relative c { \clef bass \time 3/4 \key a \minor

\partial 4 r4 | \AccompA \AccompB \AccompA \AccompA \AccompA \AccompB \AccompA \AccompA \AccompC \AccompC \AccompA \AccompA \AccompA \AccompB \AccompA | a2 r4 | \bar "|." }

% Finally, there is the score block. The score block is used to % define what is actually present in the composition, and how is it % going to be printed. Here, we define three simultaneous staffs, % for melody, accompaniment and the second voice. % The score will be printed on paper, without the first line getting indented % (since there is no instrument names, we don't want the space). % We also wish to produce a MIDI output, using metronome tempo of % 120 quarters per minute. (Note that this isn't noted anywhere on the % paper - you need separate commands to add that to the score.)

\score { <<       \new Staff \Melody \new Staff \Accompaniment \new Staff \SecondVoice >>   \paper { indent = 0 } \midi { \tempo 4 = 120 } }