Re: First time Voices user

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

On 2014-12-21 4:30 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Your irritation originates in the fact that you want to produce a
> score that*looks*  like chords but is structurally a polyphonic
> setting. There's nothing wrong with this but it implies expecting
> some "uncommon" behaviour. Concretely you have to hide the
> articulations in one voice. OTOH when you set it as chords you have
> to force the direction of the articulations. That's not a shortcoming
> or inconvenience of LilyPond but a side-effect of doing something
> beside the conventions.

I guess this stems from the fact that I'm so unfamiliar with musical
conventions.  Not having a huge amount of formal training, I can't
recognize when something is "unconventional" and thus warrants some
pretzel twisting.

However, now that I know this, it makes sense to me that I have to hide
the articulations from the harmony to achieve the look I want.  Further,
with the \omit statement down in the Voice, I've accomplished the
separation of music from presentation (part of the goal of this exercise).

On 2014-12-21 4:43 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Yes, articulations are per-voice --- otherwise you can't have a
> tenuto tenor against a staccato cantus or similar.

I figured something like this was a possibility, even if it didn't
figure into the piece I was working on.

> Something like http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=372 might help.
> Or try removing the Script_engraver from one of the voices.
>
> Or if you really want to be able to merge the articulations, put
> them all in  a single voice, using partcombine:

In this case the \omit statement is enough, but I'll keep both of those
solutions in mind should I get a more complicated piece.


Thanks Peter, Urs, and Kevin for your help.  I feel like I've got a
better understanding of what Lilypond expects (and what I should be
doing) now.
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