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From:
Frederick Bartlett <address@hidden>
Date: 18 December 2012 11:25
Subject: Re: Aligning multiple verses to alternative notes in the melody
To: Phil Holmes <
address@hidden>
Phil,
I guess I'm not being clear. And it can confuse the unwary singer!
Imagine that there are substantial variations in the number of syllables in the lyrics between verses. So one verse might have "you" against a half note, while the next would have "egotistical twerp" against a run of five sixteenths and a dotted eighth.
I want to set both sets of notes in a single staff for the voice and the lyrics of the two verses to align correctly to each set, thus:
{
\new Staff
<<
\override Score.LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\new Voice = "Upper" { \voiceOne
a'4 b'2 a'4 g'4
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "Upper" { to you, my love }
\new Voice = "Lower" { \voiceOne
a'4 \voiceTwo b'16 b' d'' b' b' b'8. \voiceOne a'4 g'4
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "Lower" { the e -- go -- tis -- ti -- cal twerp I love }
>> % Staff end
}
But I'd like to do it without generating warnings and without repeating identical notes between voices, as above, while keeping the precise alignment of notes and syllables.
Does that make it any clearer?
Thanks again,
Fred
On 18 December 2012 10:52, Phil Holmes
<address@hidden> wrote:
So the singers have different lyrics but the same
note? If I was trying to sing that, I would find it very confusing.
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:37
PM
Subject: Re: Aligning multiple verses to
alternative notes in the melody
Phil,
Thanks -- I guess I could, but that's a bit
kludgey* as well. Since I don't want stems in both directions for those notes
which don't change, I'd have to use
\new Voice =
"Lower" {
s4 s4
\voiceTwo a'8 a'8 \voiceOne a'4
a'4
\voiceTwo a'8 a'8 \voiceOne a'4 a'4
}
which
works, but emits warnings for every note with identical stems in each voice:
"warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns".
It does look OK,
though ... and I can ignore the warnings. I hope.
Thanks
again,
Fred
*kludgey, thy name is lilypond
On 18 December 2012 10:18, Phil Holmes
<address@hidden> wrote:
Why not just use 2 voices and skips?
{
\new Staff
<<
\new Voice = "Upper"
{
a'4 a'4 \voiceOne a'4
a'4
a'4 a'4 a'4 a'4
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "Upper" { a b c d e f g
h }
\new Voice = "Lower"
{
s4 s4 \voiceTwo a'8
a'8 a'4
a'4 a'8 a'8 a'4
a'4
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto
"Lower" { a b c d e f g h }
>> % Staff
end
}
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:44
PM
Subject: Aligning multiple verses to
alternative notes in the melody
Hi!
I have a song with irregular verses; I want to
show the alternative notes in the melody and align some verses to one
alternative and some to the other.
I can come close by using '_'
and the "divisi lyrics" instructions, but the alignment is not
perfect.
What I want is something like this:
4 4 4/8 8 4 | 4 4/8 8 4 4
a
b c d e f g
h
a b c d e f g
h
where '4's are quarter notes, '8's are eighth notes, and
'4/8's are both.
Here's a snippet:
firstVerse = \lyricmode
{ a b c d e f g h }
skippy = #(define-music-function (parser
location syllables) (number?)
#{ \repeat unfold $syllables
{ \skip 1 } #})
LL = { \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X
= #LEFT }
secondVerse = \lyricmode { \skippy 2 \LL a_b c d \LL e_f
g h }
melodyMusic = \relative c'' { c4 c4 << {
\voiceOne c4 } \new Voice = "split" { \voiceTwo c8 [ c8 ] } >> c4 |
c4 << { \voiceOne c4 } \new Voice = "split" { \voiceTwo c8 [ c8 ] }
>> c4 c4 \bar "|." }
\new Staff = "voice" <<
\new Voice = "melody" << \voiceOne \global
\melodyMusic>>
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody"
\firstVerse
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody"
\secondVerse
>>
Thanks!
Fred
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