On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 08:50, Kuredant Kuredant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Given the following example: > > (snip) > > I would like to hide the "melody" staff, while keeping the lyrics aligned to it (i.e. keep only "song" and "songLyrics" in \score). > Is that possible? I've been looking through https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/vocal-music, but it seems that the melody staff is always displayed in the examples.
Hello, Well, you can put your "melody" in a NullVoice, as explained in NR 2.1.2 Techniques specific to lyrics > Polyphony with shared lyrics https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics.html#polyphony-with-shared-lyrics You might also want to use melismata and manually beamed notes, cf. NR 2.1.1 Common notation for vocal music > Multiple notes to one syllable https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music.html#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable Which gives: melody = \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \autoBeamOff f4 g8[ f e f] | e2. } songLyrics = \lyricmode { Ky -- ri -- e __ } song = \relative c' { \time 3/4 c4 c c | c8 c c2 | } \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff = "music" { << \new Voice = "song" { \song } \new NullVoice = "melody" { \melody } >> } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" { \songLyrics } >> \layout {} } Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <[email protected]>
