SkipMusic - LilyPond program-reference
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#### SkipMusic

Filler that takes up duration, does not print anything, and also does not create staffs or voices implicitly.

Syntax: `\skip` duration.

Music types: general-music, event, rhythmic-event and skip-event

Accepted by: Skip_event_swallow_translator, Swallow_engraver and Swallow_performer

Properties:

`name` (symbol):
  `'SkipMusic`

  Name of this music object

`length-callback` (procedure):
  `ly:music-duration-length`

  How to compute the duration of this music. This property can only be defined as initializer in `define-music-types.scm`.

`iterator-ctor` (procedure):
  `ly:simple-music-iterator::constructor`

  Function to construct music-event-iterator object for this Music

`types` (list):
  `'(general-music event rhythmic-event skip-event)`

  The types of this music object; determines by what engraver this music expression is processed.

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