Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread James
Hello, On 4 January 2012 22:50, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On 4 January 2012 23:32, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> Please see the Notation Reference, section 1.5.2.  In particular, look at >> Temporary polyphonic passages. > > This problem pops up often.  I remember having replied to dozens of e-mails

Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 4 January 2012 23:32, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > Please see the Notation Reference, section 1.5.2. In particular, look at > Temporary polyphonic passages. This problem pops up often. I remember having replied to dozens of e-mails —both on the French users mailing list and on lilypond-user— fro

Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/4/12 11:28 AM, "Benjamin Bruce" wrote: >\version "2.12.2" >{ > 4<< { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } >> >} >\addlyrics { > Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear >} > >Hello all!

Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Collett
On 5/01/2012, at 7:28 am, Benjamin Bruce wrote: > \version "2.12.2" > { > 4<< { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } >> > } > \addlyrics { > Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear > } The problem is that the double backslash automagically creates _two_ new voices; you

Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread James
Hello, On 4 January 2012 18:28, Benjamin Bruce wrote: > \version "2.12.2" > { >        4<< { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } >> > } > \addlyrics { >        Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear > } > > H

Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread Benjamin Bruce
\version "2.12.2" { 4<< { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } >> } \addlyrics { Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear } Hello all! I have a question concerning lyrics and polyphony. I have looked through the Snippet R

Re: lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Lauer
Charles Gran campdeadly.com> writes: > > [I tried resarching this topic on the list archive but most related > topics are too extensive for me to sort out.] > > In a choral piece, I have a part that tempoarily divides into (single- > line) polyphony. How do I handle lyrics at this point? >

Re: lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
This example attached: \version "2.10.33" \header { } } global = { \key a \minor \time 4/4 } sopranonotes = \relative c' { r1 r r r r } sopranowords = \lyricmode { } altonotes = \relative c' { r1 r r r r} altowords = \lyricmode { } tenornotes = \relative c' { \clef "G_8" r1 | r4 << { c

lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gran
[I tried resarching this topic on the list archive but most related topics are too extensive for me to sort out.] In a choral piece, I have a part that tempoarily divides into (single- line) polyphony. How do I handle lyrics at this point? Charles The format of the score is outlined below: