Single-line musical score with text to notate prosodic rhythm

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How can I have a single line musical score only to notate the quantity of each note and pauses? I've looked into some packages, but most of them only type entire traditional 5 lines score; I also tried packages with symbols, so that I could use tabular environment to place text right bellow the note, but usually they do not align rightly.

I want more or less to reproduce what is in this image.

thank you!

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With a lilypond file like

 \new RhythmicStaff \with {\remove "Staff_symbol_engraver"} {
    \relative {
        \time 1/4 \hide Staff.TimeSignature
    \tuplet 3/2 {a8' 8 8} 8 8 \tuplet 3/2 {r8 8 8}  8 8 4 }
    \addlyrics {
    Eye less in Ga za at the mill with slaves}}

I could produce something similar to examples

It's suposed that with package lyluatex the lylipond code can be inserted into a .tex file and compiled with LuaLaTeX. But I couldn't make it work yet on my system.

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Found my own answer after help from Seamus:

The G sol re ut clef . . . is made thus, \begin{music}\trebleclef\end{music}.

That is, of course, after including \usepackage{musixtex} in the header.

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The quarter note symbol from package wasysym can be used without loading the package:

\documentclass{article}

\providecommand*{\quarternote}{%
  \begingroup
    \fontencoding{U}%
    \fontfamily{wasy}%
    \selectfont
    \symbol{12}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}
  \tiny \quarternote
  \scriptsize \quarternote
  \small \quarternote
  \normalsize \quarternote
  \large \quarternote
  \Large \quarternote
  \LARGE \quarternote
  \huge \quarternote
  \Huge \quarternote
\end{document}

I would not recommend \Vier of package harmony, because it is a constructed symbol at a fixed font size.

The following file compares the the quarter note symbols from wasy and arev and removes a substitution warning from the wasy symbol if \bfseries is used (Only sizes smaller 10pt are not available as bold).

\documentclass{article}

% wasy
\newcommand*{\quarternotewasy}{%
  \begingroup
    \fontencoding{U}%
    \fontfamily{wasy}%
    \fontshape{n}%
    \ssubSeriesBXtoB
    \selectfont
    \symbol{12}%
  \endgroup
}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\ssubSeriesBXtoB}{%
  \if b\expandafter\@car\f@series{}\@nil
    \fontseries{b}%
  \fi
}
\makeatother

% arev
\newcommand*{\quarternotearev}{%
  \begingroup
    \usefont{U}{zavm}{m}{n}%
    \symbol{90}%
  \endgroup
}

\newcommand*{\test}[2]{%
  #2%
  \tiny #1%
  \scriptsize #1%
  \small #1%
  \normalsize #1%
  \large #1%
  \Large #1%
  \LARGE #1%
  \huge #1%
  \Huge #1%
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
  wasy: & \test{\quarternotewasy}{} \\
  wasy-bold: & \test{\quarternotewasy}{\bfseries} \\
  arev: & \test{\quarternotearev}{} \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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