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 3.1.3 Nesting music expressions
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 It is not essential to declare all staves at the beginning; they may be
 introduced temporarily at any point.  This is particularly useful for
 creating ossia sections – see (music-glossary)ossia.  Here is a
 simple example showing how to introduce a new staff temporarily for the
 duration of three notes:
 
      \new Staff {
        \relative g' {
          r4 g8 g c4 c8 d |
          e4 r8
          <<
            { f8 c c }
            \new Staff {
              f8 f c
            }
          >>
          r4 |
        }
      }
      [image src="" alt="[image of music]" text="image of music"]
 
 Note that the size of the clef is the same as a clef printed following a
 clef change – slightly smaller than the clef at the beginning of the
 line.  This is usual for clefs printed in the middle of a line.
 
    The ossia section may be placed above the staff as follows:
 
      \new Staff = "main" {
        \relative g' {
          r4 g8 g c4 c8 d |
          e4 r8
          <<
            { f8 c c }
            \new Staff \with {
              alignAboveContext = #"main"
            } { f8 f c }
          >>
          r4 |
        }
      }
      [image src="" alt="[image of music]" text="image of music"]
 
    This example uses ‘\with’, which will be explained more fully later.
 It is a means of modifying the default behavior of a single Staff.  Here
 it says that the new staff should be placed above the staff called
 “main” instead of the default position which is below.
 
 
 See also
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    Ossia are often written without clef and without time signature and
 are usually in a smaller font.  These require further commands which
DONTPRINTYET  have not yet been introduced.  See Size of objects, and *noteDONTPRINTYET  have not yet been introduced.  See Size of objects, and 
 (lilypond-notation)Ossia staves.
 

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