Scoring song with multiple sections

2016-05-01 Thread Henry Law
(Lilypond v2.18.2 under Linux.) I'm scoring a song which has the form A A B C C. Two verses go to section A, then there are words for a bridge, then two more verses to the music of section C. Or to put it graphically Chords to section A Notes of section A Verse 1 words Verse 2 words Chor

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections

2016-05-01 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 01.05.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Henry Law: But on the second appearance of "<<" Lily barfs with "syntax error, unexpected <<". Every \score can contain only one music expression but you did something like % \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new Staff a \new Staff b >> <<

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections

2016-05-01 Thread Henry Law
On 01/05/16 17:32, Malte Meyn wrote: \score { { << \new Staff = "first" a \new Staff = "second" b >> << \context Staff = "first" f \context Staff = "second" g >> } } Thank you; that's got me slightly further forward, although your example h

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections

2016-05-01 Thread Noeck
Hi Henry, a minimal working example would get you more help, i.e. one without undefined variables like \verseOne but rather some dummy notes that work for everyone. If I understand what you want, you want the two voices to be in the same staff, one after the other. Then this might help you. Here y

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections (with min example)

2016-05-01 Thread Henry Law
On 01/05/16 19:09, Noeck wrote: a minimal working example would get you more help Yes, sorry; I should have done that to start with. Thanks to your I'm nearly there. This example ... % \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new ChordNames { c2 c } \new Staff = "melodyStaff" {

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections (with min example)

2016-05-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-05-01 22:58 GMT+02:00 Henry Law : > On 01/05/16 19:09, Noeck wrote: >> >> a minimal working example would get you more help > > > Yes, sorry; I should have done that to start with. Thanks to your I'm > nearly there. This example ... > > % > \version "2.18.2" > > \score { > << >

Re: Scoring song with multiple sections (with min example)

2016-05-01 Thread Henry Law
On 01/05/16 22:46, Thomas Morley wrote: \new Lyrics = "first" \lyricsto "voiceOneTwo" { this is verse one } \new Lyrics = "second" \lyricsto "voiceOneTwo" { this is verse two } \context Lyrics = "first" \lyricsto "bridgeVoice" { this is the bridge } \context Lyrics = "first" \