Robert Patterson wrote:
1. Should I create a separate "verse" for the text of each song, or
should I place all the text in one "verse"? If they are separate,
won't I end up fiddling with base lines a great deal?
Christopher Smith wrote:
Assuming each song has only one line of lyrics, I would put them all
in the same verse. You are going to mess around with baselines
anyway, since music that never descends below the staff needs
different lyric baselines than music that does go beneath the staff.
Set a basic baseline, then adjust system by system (3rd arrow from
the left) near the end of the process.
If you have a very long text, I find it is useful to break it up into
different verses, choruses, or sections so that mistakes or the need
to slide syllables left or right won't screw up the whole thing. (It
limits the damage you can do to only that one verse.)
This works well in things like opera, because there usually aren't
repeated verses with new text. All of my verses, choruses and
sections are set to the same distance below the staff and this is a
part of my default file.
-Randolph Peters
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