Hi Kieren,
huge respect for the kind of projects you are doing :)
Answering these questions is difficult because they can depend a lot on
the specifics of the music and any solution can become cumbersome
because of only a little instance that doesn’t fit the schematic. A few
thoughts:
On 27.02.24 15:05, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
In terms of efficiency (e.g., compilation time) and complexity (q.v., code
maintenance) would it be better to:
1. \tag the various sections in question and then try to combine them (using
\partcombine?) into a single vocal line; or
This could be preferable if you can delineate the sections well. Trying
out \partcombine quickly made me avoid it until absolutely necessary,
but maybe it becomes manageable with clever and experienced use of
\partCombineApart and friends. In choral pieces, I often use a single
variable that contains all the lyrics, tagged depending on who does and
doesn’t use which part and then filtered in the score setup. I believe
that it makes a key difference to use both \keepWithTag _and_
\removeWithTag like this:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
text = \lyricmode {
\tag A { on -- ly al -- to }
\tag nA { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to }
}
\score {
<<
%{ simultaneous music expression with everything for soprano part %}
\keepWithTag A \removeWithTag nA <<
\variableThatContainsAltoNotes
\addlyrics \text
>>
%{ likewise for other parts %}
>>
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
(addlyrics only for brevity of the example)
2. \addQuote everything and then \quoteDuring the appropriate sections? n.b. I
believe lyrics aren’t quoteable (right?)…
I haven’t tried quoting lyrics, but I’ve often used a hybrid approach:
quotes in the music, lyrics managed with tags.
HTH, yours
Simon
