Re: Vocal scores with extra staves

[Andrew Bromage]

G'day.

On 27/2/17 10:27 pm, Klaus Blum wrote:
> welcome to the List!  :-)
Thanks! It's actually a rejoin after many years.
> It will be easier to align the lyrics to a voice that exists from the very
> beginning. In your example, I've put the unison part into the same voice as
> the soprano part.
That will work for this case, thanks. I'm not sure how well this would scale
to, say, a Gilbert and Sullivan act finale.

I'm curious what is actually happening. Is the behaviour that I was seeing
a bug, or is it technically correct but counter-intuitive?
> In such cases, it's better to explicitely start a new staff instead of
> having LilyPond do that automatically. Now you can control positions with
> alignAboveContext or alignBelowContext.
Thanks for this and also to the kind person who told me this off-list.
> As you can see, this can get pretty complicated.
Believe me, it's not as complicated as the non-cut-down example.
>   With your "real" verses
> being longer than just two bars, maybe it's easier to start all staves from
> the beginning and just working with \RemoveEmptyStaves.
I considered this option. The trouble is, if the place where the unison ends
and the divisi begins turns out not to be the best place to break a 
line, this
would be incorrect, because it would appear as if the male chorus should
not sing during the unison part. Spaces rather than rests would be even
more confusing.

Thanks once again.

Andrew Bromage