Hi Brin, > I am working on an opera and would like to use text in the header to help the > performers keep track of where they are in the score. So ideally, the header > on each page should say something like "Title of Opera: Act I, scene ii", > with the scene reflecting whatever the current scene is. Since there aren't > musical stops between the scenes, I would like the scenes to flow into one > another in the same \score block (so that a scene might start in the middle > of a line of music, say), which is pretty standard from the opera scores and > parts I'm used to.
Having engraved many of my own musicals, operas, and the like, I can say that breaking things into scenes — or even smaller chunks — is really useful, and gives you ultimate flexibility: you can break the scene wherever you want (e.g., the middle of a line of music), keeping each “building block” separate, and then “stitch them together” in any number of score formats/outputs. At that point, having the header reflect the exact “building block” in question is really simple. Just my 2¢ (from twenty years of Lilypond-ing my music dramas) — hope it’s helpful! Kieren.
