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Clusters are a device to denote that a complete range of notes is to be played.

Here the coda is simply engraved as a new score.

Lilypond has no way of creating color gradients. This markup function duplicates the path markup, converts it to postscript and uses postscript's rectclip to crop the duplicates, then colors each one a step to create a smooth gradient. The variable 'res' defines the resolution of the gradient. A larger number here makes the gradient smoother, but takes longer to compile. Bigger gradients and larger paths will need a larger resolution to look smooth.

It has NOT been tested with relative path commands.

This snippet demonstrates drawing colored arrows in a score, e.g. for analysis purposes. These arrows have a fixed length and angle. If you prefer arrows that adapt to layout changes, please also have a look at snippet 962.

This snippet demonstrates drawing colored arrows in a score, e.g. for analysis purposes. These arrows will adapt to layout changes, because they are made of spanners between (invisible) note heads. If you need arrows with a fixed length and angle, you might prefer Snippet 961.

For analysis purposes, it could be helpful to put a colored background behind some notes.

The \whiteout command puts a white background behind a given markup text.

This snippet shows an easy way to do this with any color.

White text on black background can simply be created by \with-color #white \on-color #black

For analysis purposes, it can be useful to mark themes, motifs etc.

This snippet demonstrates some tricks for drawing colored boxes around/behind notes.

It is based on the code of snippet 960: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=960

This scheme function can be used to produce colored note heads that have a black outline.

The colors are automatically applied based on a given note's name and also (optionally) its alteration (natural, sharp, flat, double sharp, double flat).

Individual objects may be assigned colors. Several pre-defined colors are available; they are exhaustively listed in the Notation Reference.