BeamEvent - LilyPond program-reference
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#### BeamEvent

Starts or stops a beam.

Syntax for manual control: c8-[ c c-] c8

Event classes: beam-event, span-event, music-event and StreamEvent

Accepted by: Beam_engraver, Beam_performer and Grace_beam_engraver

Properties:

`name` (symbol):
  `'BeamEvent`

  Name of this music object

`types` (list):
  `'(general-music event beam-event span-event)`

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

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