Hi Samanth(a),
I'm producing a bassline score, with chords, notes and lyrics.
As the bassline notes are ... sparse, I'm trying to use a NullVoice to
hold the rhythm and aligning the lyrics to that (I gather this is an
approach used by others)
Despite much googling/reading of docs/internals/snippets/etc I'm
totally failing to prevent a staff appearing for the NullVoice.
I'm fairly new to Lilypond and am still trying to wrap my head around
contexts/grobs/etc and would be grateful for any advice as to how to
resolve this issue.
I've attached a cutdown .ly and the pdf it produces.
Don't worry, it'll all become clear soon enough. And you hit a
comparatively subtle point: Since you're not creating a Staff context
explicitly, you're relying on LilyPond to create staves automatically,
and it seems a new Voice (or NullVoice) causes a new Staff to be created.
Replacing your
\score {
{
...
by
\score {
\new Staff {
...
already does the trick.
In general, I would not recommend adding multiple sections of
simultaneous music << ... >> one after another to make up a piece. Most
often, it's more convenient to construct a _complete_ bass music
variable (which of course may be comprised of multiple sections defined
independently), similarly for the other voices, and then combine them in
a << ... >> expression.
So (pseudocode), I prefer
\score {
<<
\new Staff \firstInstrument
\new Staff \secondInstrument
>>
}
with
firstInstrument = {
\firstInstrumentIntro
\firstInstrumentVerse
}
etc.
Lukas
