Re: How to structure piano music?

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/11/16 Joram Berger <address@hidden>:
> Hi Urs,
>
> thanks for your answer (from someone who has the experience with LP
> piano music)!
>
>> It's not completely clear from your example how the logical structure of
>> the music is.
>> Do you actually have independent voices that you just want to appear as
>> chords?
>> Or do you basically have chorded music that sometimes happens to split
>> into different voices (actually the example looks like this).?
>
> It's not completely clear for me, neither. It is mostly homophonic music
> (chords) but it is also always exactly 3 voices, which made me think of
> it that way. I wanted to avoid all the chord notation by writing each
> voice seperately.

You can do this by putting the melodies together, but *not* in separate voices:

\new Voice <<
  { c' d' e' f' }
  { e' f' b' c'' }
>>

The trick is to know what exactly LilyPond means by "voice", and what
you mean by "voice", and don't fall into a trap when these definitions
differ.

hth,
Janek