Hi Andrew,

> I'm working on a project where the composer wants both singing voices on the 
> same staff (it's a call-and-response thing), but such that whenever "voice 1" 
> is singing, stems and lyrics are down, and whenever "voice 2" is singing, 
> they're up. 
> 

you have had a look at the notation manual and there the stuff under the 
heading "Single-staff polyphony"?

There are extensive examples for all sorts of situations like the one you 
described.

>     I can switch stem direction with \stemUp and \stemDown, and I can use 
> \set Staff.instrumentName to change the name as well. But is there some 
> command to change the lyrics' vertical placement so-to-speak on the fly? With 
> a single voice? Usince \set Lyrics.alignAboveContext = "staff" doesn't seem 
> to work.
> 

alignAboveContext requires the name of the context, e.g.

\new Staff = "2voice"...

....alignAboveContext = "2voice"

should work.

Try to provide a MWE - that will greatly simplify helping with your problem :)

Kind regards,
Michael
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