Instruction text between header and staff

[Erika Pirnes]

I'm trying to add some instruction text in my score. I would like to position it between the header and the music, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do this, as markup cannot be placed inside a score block. I also tried taking the header out of the score block which still seemed to produce the exact same result.

(Another minor issue I had was the spacing between the title and the header. I wanted a bit more space in between, which I was able to obtain by adding an arranger field but leaving it blank. If someone has a better solution to suggest, I'd be happy to hear that as well.)

Here's my minimal example:

\version "2.18.2"

\header {

  title = "A Piece"

  composer = "Someone"

  arranger = " "

}

\paper {

  scoreTitleMarkup = \markup {

     \fill-line {

      \null

      \fontsize #4 \bold \fromproperty #'header:piece

      \fromproperty #'header:opus

    }

  }

}

first = \relative c''{\repeat unfold 32 {c4}}

\header {piece = "I"}

\markup {

  Here are some instructions on how you should play my piece.

}

\score {

  \new Staff {\first}

  \layout {indent = 0.0}

}

Thank you,

Erika