in my typesetting of this for organ i used chords for viI and viII since merging of two heads with same pitch and stem direction wasn't done properly and the crossing of both voicesin the last bar needs to be tweaked.
\relative c' { r8 <f a> <a c> r r <e g> <g c> r r8 <d f> <f b> r r <g b> <e' g> r r8 <a, c> <c f> r r <d f> <f a> r r8 <b, d> <d g> r r <c e> <e g> r r8 <a, d> <c f> r r <b d> <d f> r r8 <d f> <g, e'> r r <a d> <g f'> r r8 <g e'> <c g'> r r <es c'> <a, fis'> r r8 <fis a'> <a d> r r <a c> <d, fis> r r8 <d g> <g b> r r <g b> <b d> r r8 *c *<a fis'> r r <es' g> <d fis> r r8 <b d> <d g> r r <c g> <e c> r r8 <a, c> <c f> r r <b f'> <c a'> r r8 <d f> <f b> r r <g b> <b, e> r r8 <b g'> <g b> r r *a* <a f'> r r8 <f b> <e c'> r r <f a> <a c> r r8 <e g> <g c> r r <d f> <f b> r r8 <g b> <e' g> r r <a, c> <f' a> r r8 <g, g'> <as d> r r <g d> <e g> r r8 <f a> <e g> <g c> << f2_~ \new Voice {\voiceOne a8[ f] d f16 g} >> <a f>8 <b g>16 <a f> <g e> <a f> <f d>8 <g e>2 \fermata } Am Do., 28. Aug. 2025 um 16:48 Uhr schrieb Raphael Mankin < r...@mankin.org.uk>: > Thank you. Yes, I had spotted that the viola part causes problems at the > final cadence. You have clearly looked at the whole score, not just > the bit I posted ;-) > > There are a few other octavation problems that need to be sorted out; > only Rachmaninov could span some of the chords. > > On 28/08/2025 09:05, Martin Straeten wrote: > > better just combine the violins as described by mats but as \voiceOne > > and the viola as \voiceTwo: > > \new Staff { > > \new Voice {\voiceOne << \viI \viII >> > > \new Voice {\voiceTwo \vla} > > } > > then you might use \change Staff to send the viola in bar 19 to the left > > hand staff for better readability > > > > Am Mi., 20. Aug. 2025 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb Mats Bengtsson > > <matsboxergr...@gmail.com <mailto:matsboxergr...@gmail.com>>: > > > > __ > > > > On 2025-08-20 12:57, Raphael Mankin wrote: > >> > >> \partCombine will combine two parts, but is there a way of > >> combining three? I have tried > >> > >> \partCombine \partCombine VoiceA VoiceB VoiceC > >> > >> and a couple of variants, but they all yield strange outputs and > >> error messages. I am using the Merge_rests_engraver. > >> > > As long as all the parts share the same rhythm, you could do > > something as simple as > > > > \version "2.24.4" viI = \relative c'' { \key as \major r8 c es r r > > bes es r | } viII = \relative c'' { \key as \major r8 as c r r g bes > > r | } vla = \relative c' { \key as \major r8 es as r r es g r | } > > \score{ \new Staff{ \new Voice << \viI \viII \vla >> } } > > > > /Mats > > > >