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Re: Divided voices
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Divided voices |
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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:44:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
northofscotland <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a question about the best way to produce music when it divides
> for maybe only a few bars in a piece. I often come across this when
> setting SATB vocal works. Straight forward SATB with a single voice
> to a line is simple enough, but I am struggling to find an elegant
> (and simple!) way to deal with a part that may divide into, say, S1
> and S2 perhaps only for a few notes in the whole piece. The way I
> have sorted it so far is to duplicate the S line, put in the changed
> notes and substitute the common notes with skips, then combine them
> with something like \new Voice = "sopcombo" {\voiceOne << \global
> \sopMusic \sopDiv >> }
>
> Whilst this seems to work reasonably well I do seem to lose some
> articulations, slurs etc in the process, and it does seem rather
> cumbersome.
If your system is already occupied with the alto, you might want to
write
<< { parts for soprano1 } \\ { \voiceThree parts for soprano2 } >>
in order to have stems for both parts point upwards.
--
David Kastrup