LilyPond Internals Reference: 1.1.9 ArticulationEvent

### 1.1.9 `ArticulationEvent`

Add an articulation marking to a note.

Syntax: note`x` `y`, where `x` is a direction (`^` for up or `_` for down), or LilyPond’s choice (no direction specified), and where `y` is an articulation (such as `-.`, `->`, `\tenuto`, `\downbow`). See the Notation Reference for details.

Event classes: `articulation-event`, `music-event`, `script-event` and `StreamEvent`.

Accepted by: `Beat_engraver`, `Beat_performer`, `Drum_note_performer`, `Note_performer` and `Script_engraver`.

Properties:

`name` (symbol):

  `'ArticulationEvent`

  Name of this music object.

`types` (list):

      '(post-event
         event
         articulation-event
         script-event)

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

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