Ken,
It's difficult to be definitive with advice when wee can't use your code since
it doesn't compile as supplied. However, my temptation would be simply to mark
the repeat "Repeat 4 times" unless it's obvious from the lyrics, and mark the
tempo change "4th repeat only".
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Smith
To: m...@apollinemike.com
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change
Mike:
Thank you very much for your helpful advice. My problem is really how to
code the final verse of my four-verse 'learning' melody. I've diagrammed below
how I think I'll have to code the melody, but I'm wondering if there's a
different, less complicated, way to go about doing it.
\melody
%% ( for verses 1, 2, 3 only )
stanza1, stanza 2
\repeat volta 3
{ stanza 3, stanza 4 }
%% ( then continue notation for final verse 4 )
stanza 1, stanza 2 %% (first two stanzas of verse 4 are played at same
tempo as for verses 1, 2, 3 )
\repeat volta
{ \markup tempo = "slower, sadly"
stanza 3, stanza 4
}
\alternative %% ( use for the octave upbeat on final note of melody )
{ d'2~d2\fermata }
\bar " || "
In other words, it seems to me that I'll have to code a volta for three
verses, then another volta for the fourth verse, with an alternate ending for
the last notes of the final stanza.
Thank you again for taking the time to help me.
Very best regards,
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: m...@apollinemike.com
To: Ken Smith
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: Repeat alternative includes a tempo change
On May 5, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
I'm new to LilyPond (v2.12.3) and to music notation in general, so I'm
just a tad beyond the starting point on LilyPond's learning curve. I'm
scratching my head now as to how to write the repeats in my learning testfile,
"Podmoskovnye Vechera", (Moscow Nights). The melody has four verses, each
verse has two couplets (i.e., four stanzas per verse), with the second couplet
repeated in each of the four verses. The repeats for the first three verses
are identical, but the repeat for the final verse includes a tempo change
(slower, sadly) with an octave upbeat at the end. I'm only coding the melody
line for now; here's the code I've been using (time = 2/4):
\bar "|:"
\repeat volta 4 %% notation shows repeat for verses 1,
2, 3, only
{
b4 cis4
e8 d8 a4~a8
e4 d8 \mbreak %% \mbreak defined in my '%%
Definitions' block
a'8. g16 bes4~bes4
c8 bes8
a4 g8 f8
}
\alternative %% notation shows repeat for verse 4
{
{a4 g8 f8 d2 }
{ d'2~d2\fermata }
}
\bar "||"
To get it right (volta showing verses 1 - 4, alternative showing verse 4
only) will I need to code the final couplet of verse 4 into \alternative? Or
is there a better, more professional way to do it?
Generally, alternative endings start on the first full measure during which
a repeated section diverges. It sounds like the solution would be to back the
beginning of the alternative up one measure so that the changed upbeat can be
part of the alternative.
Cheers,
MS
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