"Yesberg, John" wrote:
>I use lilypond for C16 & C17 polyphonic choral music,
>which has a lot of melisma (one syllable sung over lots
>of notes). I value the _ symbol for its typing speed and
>its readability.
I agree to that. But, even the current solution is somewhat unhandy
for music with long melismas and especially for music that does not
stick to a fixed meter, such as Gregorian chant, cadenzas or some
modern vocal works. From the user's point of view, in such music it
would be much easier to mark the position of syllables in the voice
(or whatever) context rather than specifying note durations in a
lyrics context. E.g. I would like to be able to specify something
like this, where "This" and "ex-" are 2-notes melismas:
\context Voice = MyMelody { \stemdown
\syllable c4 d % This
\syllable e % is
\syllable f % an
\syllable g a % ex-
\syllable g % am-
\syllable % ple
}
\context Lyrics = TextForMyMelody { \alignOnVoice MyMelody
This is an ex- am- ple
}
Perhaps one would like to choose a shorter word than "syllable".
Bye,
Juergen
