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New issue 2600 by [email protected]: Consecutive melismata http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2600 Reported by Philip Thomas: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-06/msg00091.html The following appears in NR v.2.14.2, section 2.1.1, Common notation for vocal music, Multiple notes to one syllable (see page 233 of PDF version): ======================== An unslurred group of notes will be treated as a melisma if they are bracketed between \melisma and \melismaEnd. << \new Voice = "melody" { \time 3/4 f4 g8 \melisma f e f \melismaEnd e2. } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" { Ky -- ri -- e } [ ] Note that this method cannot be used to indicate two melismata if the first one is immediately followed by another. ======================== My question concerns the last sentence (¨Note that ...¨). I think the method _can_ be used to indicate two consecutive melismata, e.g. the following seems to work just fine, to me: \relative c'' << \new Voice = "melody" { \time 3/4 f4 g8 \melisma f e f \melismaEnd g8 \melisma f e f \melismaEnd e2. } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" { E -- le -- i -- son } If something else was intended, the sentence should be clarified. I can't imagine how one melisma could actually commence on the last note of an immediately previous melisma; if it did, there would only be one melisma overall, not two. Unless I'm missing the point, then the sentence should simply be deleted.
