On 2024-02-13 11:05 am, Morten Lemvigh wrote:
Hi,
I have some choir pieces, where all voices are singing the same verses,
but
in some places one voice is omitting one or a few words. Is there some
way
of skipping syllables from the lyrics from within the voice context.
Like
entering "null notes" that would be bound to lyrics but cause them to
not
be rendered? For example in the music for the tenor voice I would like
to
enter "skip 2 syllables from the lyrics at this point".
My current alternative is to create lyric snippets for all the
consecutive
parts and then glue them together for each voice. But with just a few
skipped words in a couple of voices it quickly becomes unmanageable.
Alternatively I could have complete copies of each verse for each
voice,
but making corrections to that is not very attractive.
Any ideas for a better approach are highly appreciated.
Tags can be useful for keeping things organized:
%%%%
\version "2.22.0"
words = \lyricmode {
one two
\tag soprano { three four }
\tag alto { \markup \italic three __ _ }
five
}
soprano = \relative {
c''4 a g b | c1
}
alto = \relative {
e'4 f e8 d~ 4 | e1
}
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff = staff <<
\new Voice = soprano { \voiceOne \soprano }
\new Voice = alto { \voiceTwo \alto }
>>
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = staff }
\lyricsto soprano { \keepWithTag soprano \words }
\new Lyrics
\lyricsto alto { \keepWithTag alto \words }
>>
%%%%
-- Aaron Hill
