Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

[David Kastrup]

Tim Rowe <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to notate a song with piano accompaniment, but I don't want
> a separate voice line printed -- the singer will be able to work it
> out from the piano part, and space is at a premium. I do need to align
> the lyrics to the voice line, though. Would a reasonable way around
> that be to create a voice for the vocal line and prevent it being
> printed? How would I do that? And is there a better way? I'd prefer
> not to have to fall back to manual syllable durations, but I suppose
> that would be possible if I have to.

I think I would prefer that over separating out one voice from a piano
extract.  Which is, of course, possible but seems rather artificial.

-- 
David Kastrup