Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-10-15 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Marco Gusy yahoo.it> writes: > -Traditional scores *always* separate each syllable in beaming > -two syllables *never* are beamed together. > -beaming is used only on the same syllable [I'm jumping in *very* late here; please bear with me...] I think you may have forgotten a rule that applies t

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Marco Gusy wrote: I just want to obtain the correct beaming behaviour in vocal music (like in the sample image i sent) without getting mad beaming and "melismaing" by hand. The rule should simply be "Break beam on every new syllable". Since lilypond implemented the auto-melisma using dashes

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't really understand what you mean. If you don't want any connection between the lyrics and the notes, just skip \lyricsto and specify the duration of each syllable. If you want information from the lyrics to affect the notes, then you would still have to specify the duration of each syllable

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 09:48, mercoledì 22 marzo 2006, Marco Gusy ha scritto: > (ignoring ties) I meant ignoring slurs, ties are ok ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-24 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 17:25, giovedì 23 marzo 2006, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: > Now I see what you have in mind. Still, using "_" to specify melismas > directly in the lyrics does not currently in any way influence the way > the notes are typeset and I suspect that there's quite much hacking involved > to make it

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Marco Gusy wrote: Alle 13:09, giovedì 23 marzo 2006, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: My point is that if you want LilyPond to break a beam whenever there is a new syllable, then it has to know how long each syllable is. If you use \lyricsto, then LilyPond figures out the duration of each sylla

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 13:09, giovedì 23 marzo 2006, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: > If you want the beaming to be determined based on the > syllables, > then LilyPond needs some other method to figure out the duration of each > syllable. I meant that the method to deterine syllable duration in lyrics is already im

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 13:09, giovedì 23 marzo 2006, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: > My point is that if you want LilyPond to break a beam whenever there is > a new > syllable, then it has to know how long each syllable is. If you use > \lyricsto, then > LilyPond figures out the duration of each syllable based on inf

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 21:34, mercoledì 22 marzo 2006, hai scritto: > I don't really understand what you mean. If you don't want > any connection between the lyrics and the notes, just skip > \lyricsto and specify the duration of each syllable. If you want > information from the lyrics to affect the notes, then you

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-22 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 15:16, venerdì 17 marzo 2006, Marco Gusy ha scritto: > > > > By default, LilyPond supports the opposite, namely that when you > > use \lyricsto it interprets all manually inserted beams as melismas and > > only attach one syllable to each beam. > > But there's an issue: a melisma isn't alwa

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-17 Thread Marco Gusy
> > By default, LilyPond supports the opposite, namely that when you > use \lyricsto it interprets all manually inserted beams as melismas and > only attach one syllable to each beam. But there's an issue: a melisma isn't always entirely tied in a beam (look at the example in my previous post,

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Marco Gusy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I would like to hear what you think about lilypond and beaming in vocal music. I'm quite sure it's common in traditional engraving to beam together only notes of a melisma. The rule is: two syllabes never are beamed together. I attach a picture as an e

Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-16 Thread Marco Gusy
Hi, I would like to hear what you think about lilypond and beaming in vocal music. I'm quite sure it's common in traditional engraving to beam together only notes of a melisma. The rule is: two syllabes never are beamed together. I attach a picture as an example. This is Bach Magnificat, the "M