Please read about melismata at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Lyrics-context.html#The-Lyrics-context
Of course, in this particular example, using \lyricsto is much more troublesome than using explicit durations of each syllable of the lyrics (and remove the \lyricsto), but when you have longer sections of lyrics, it's mostly a big saving to use \lyricsto.
Some more comments:
- Did you see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00038.html
you might find some useful ideas. Also,there have been several
recent discussions on lyrics on the mailing list.
- Why do you have several <<{...} \\ {...}>> directly following
eachother? Why not just write each voice separately and then
combining them with a single <<{...} \\ {...}>> or even better
to explicitly give more descriptive names to the two voices.
- If you read the section in the manual, refered above, you'll
notice that you can replace all your \skip 8 with a single one,
if you insert \melisma and \melismaEnd at the appropriate places
in the music.
/Mats
Charles Gran wrote:
So--if I understand this correctly--the number after \skip is still required in \lyricsto but doesn't do anything.
Realted to this, I have an introduction to a song that has a pickup text (discussed in an earlier post). The text useed to appear on the and of four in m.3. I added phrase marks and staccati to the introduction and now the text won't appear. Using \skip, there is a point where the text disappears.
I am using 2.4.2 under cygwin:
\version "2.4.2" #(set-default-paper-size "letter") %#(set-global-staff-size 25) \header { title = "Casting Spells" poet = "C J Ver Burg" composer = "Charles Gran" tagline = "" }
melody = { \set Staff.extraNatural = ##f \clef treble \key f \minor \time 2/2 %\tempo 2=60
<< { <f' aes'>8-. <f' aes'>-. < f' g' >4 <f' aes'>8-. <f' aes'>-. < f' g' >4 } \\ { c'4( b8) f->( c'4) b8 f->( } >>
<< { < c'' e''>8->( <b' d''> <a' c''> <c'' ees''>~ <c'' ees''>4) r8 <fes' aes'>->( } \\ { aes2) <aes c' ees'>8-. <aes c' ees'>-. <aes bes d'>4 } >>
<< { <aes' ces''>8 <ges' bes'> <f' aes'>) <d' f'>->( <e' c''>4.) c'8 } \\ { <aes ees'>4 bes <bes d'>8-. <bes d'>-. <c g bes>4 } >>
}
pickup = \lyricmode { \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 \skip 8 It's }
harmonies = \chordmode { r1 r1 r1
}
\score { << \context ChordNames { \set chordChanges = ##t \harmonies } \context Voice = one { \melody } \lyricsto "1" \new Lyrics \pickup >> \layout { } \midi { \tempo 2=60 } }
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