Re: Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

[Mats Bengtsson]

I hope the earlier answers have helped you get started.

andrew Black wrote:
> Hi
> I am fairly new to lilypond.   I have RTFM-ed but am rather confused by 
> the number of ways of adding lyrics to a score.   My confusion might be 
> caused by not understanding what \new and \context does.

Both create contexts, i.e. representations of a voice (Voice context) or
stave (Staff context) or choir stave (ChoirStaff context) or ...

With \new, you always get a new unique context that hasn't appeared
before in the score. With \context, you have the chance to explicitly
specify a name of the context. This is useful at least for two reasons:
- You can refer to a named Voice context when you use the \lyricsto
  command to specify which voice a certain line of lyrics should be
  attached to.
- You can refer back to a context that has already been defined earlier,
  since the context is uniquely defined by its name. For example if you
  say
\version "2.4.0"
\relative c'<<
  \context Staff = topstave { c1 | e | }
  \context Staff = bottomstave { c1 | c | }
  \context Staff = topstave { g'4 a b g | c a g2 | }
>>
  then both the first and third line of music will end up on
  one and the same stave.

I think both these aspects are used in the SATB template.

If this isn't clear from the manual, we should try to clarify it
further.

   /Mats

> My basic requirement is
>  - SATB, each one line
>  - piano part
>
> It seems to me that I need to build up a template to do this
> (and by building it up myself I will understand it!)
> My starting point was 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Vocal-ensembles.html#Vocal-ensembles 
>
> but this combines SA and TB which makes it too complex for what I want.
>
> Can someone walk me through setting this up
> Thanks
>
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