Re: Tied Notes in Voices, or change of time

[Malte Meyn]

Am 27.02.2016 um 03:22 schrieb William Marchant:
> Hi All,
> I have attached a snippet of code which shows a problem I have
> encountered.  Notice that in the first measure in Voice One, there is a
> c16 tied to a c4,  and below in Voice Two an e16 tied to e4. This I
> expected.  Note however, at the end of the first measure while the e16
> is tied to the e4 in the next measure, the d16 below it is not tied to
> the e4.  As far as I can see the syntax is the same for both events, but
> the result is different.
> Different Voices?  Different Times?  Possible Bug?  Can someone throw
> any light on this for me?

You don’t need to begin and start again the two Voices for the time 
signature change. Also, it’s much easier IMO to use << { … } \\ { … } >> 
than explicitely adding Voices and using \voiceOne, \voiceTwo, and 
\oneVoice.

Some other things I noticed:

I would put the \language "english" to the very beginning of the file 
instead of somewhere into a music expression. I don’t know why it worked 
there too, but it’s very unusual.

I assume that you write \new ChoirStaff and \new Staff because you’ll 
have some more staves; until now it’s not necessary. But even with more 
staves you’ll need \new Voice only in very few cases ;) Are you sure you 
want to use ChoirStaff instead of StaffGroup? This doesn’t look like 
choir music to me.

Oh, and you don’t need the ! to force the natural sign of the c; 
LilyPond will put it there automatically because you’re in d major )

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\version "2.18.2"
\language "english"

melody = \relative c' {
  \key d \major
  <<
    {
      e'4 d8 e16 c~ c4 b8 c16 a~ |
      \time 2/4
      a4 g16 fs8. |
    }
    \\
    {
      g4 g8. e16~ e4 d8. d16~ |
      d4 d |
    }
  >>
  \time 4/4
}

\score {
  \melody
}