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While it is possible to place musical symbols
such as fermatas and coda signs using
text statements,
it is perhaps a bit confusing, since music
symbols are really not part of any particular font. So there is a "mussym"
statement that can be used. The text strings after the colon must each
consist of a single musical symbol whose name can be given without the
usual \() wrapper. The following two lines produce identical results,
but the second is perhaps a bit clearer:
rom above 1: 1 "\(ferm)"; mussym above 1: 1 "ferm";
A duration is not allowed on mussym statements
except in one special case--if the
symbol is "tr" (trill). In that case, the duration tells Mup how long a
wavy line to draw from the end of the "tr" symbol.
1: 2e;g; mussym above 1: 1 "tr" til 2; 3 "ferm"; endbar
A size can optionally be specified, inside parentheses:
mussym (15) above 2: "turn";