Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 18:49:03 (-0700), James Evensen wrote: > When I said "tie," I meant that general family of expressive marks as I > wasn't sure how to refer to them in the context of lyrics. Well I've always called them ties if only because the character itself is called an undertie (Unicode

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread James Evensen
When I said "tie," I meant that general family of expressive marks as I wasn't sure how to refer to them in the context of lyrics. In fact, while I would like the use of any type of curve, the dotted slur is the notation I want to use. It sounds though that support for this kind of notation with

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.09.2016 19:37, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi James, In choral music, I've noticed that the composer will sometimes use this notation to indicate that the singer is not to breathe in-between two particular words. In my experience, the more standard/accepted way is to have a dotted slur be

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
2016-09-14 8:39 GMT+02:00 James Evensen mailto:jimeven...@gmail.com>>: Can I put a tie between words in lyrics? In choral music, I've noticed that the composer will sometimes use this notation to indicate that the singer is not to breathe in-between two particular words. I've

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, > In choral music, I've noticed that the composer will sometimes use this > notation to indicate that the singer is not to breathe in-between two > particular words. In my experience, the more standard/accepted way is to have a dotted slur between the notes, with the lyric-slur reser

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 12:04:30 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 14.09.2016 09:46, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > >Hi James, > > > >See: > >http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-syllables-to-one-note That's elision (if that's the correct

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 14.09.2016 09:46, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi James, See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-syllables-to-one-note Cheers, Pierre 2016-09-14 8:39 GMT+02:00 James Evensen >: Can I put a tie b

Re: Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi James, See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-syllables-to-one-note Cheers, Pierre 2016-09-14 8:39 GMT+02:00 James Evensen : > Can I put a tie between words in lyrics? In choral music, I've noticed > that the composer will sometime

Ties between words in lyrics

2016-09-13 Thread James Evensen
Can I put a tie between words in lyrics? In choral music, I've noticed that the composer will sometimes use this notation to indicate that the singer is not to breathe in-between two particular words. I've looked around, but the only examples I've seen of ties used in Lilypond are between notes.