> On 21 Apr 2024, at 17:58, Gian Paolo Renello <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I read as you suggested but didn't find the way. Here is hte piece of score
> code:
>
> \score{
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff \with {
> midiInstrument = "choir aahs"
> instrumentName = "Soprani"
> } { \soprano }
> \addlyrics {\sopranoVerse_sup}
> \addlyrics { \sopranoVerse_ru }
> \addlyrics { \sopranoVerse }
>
You can’t use the \addlyrics shortcut when you want to place the lyrics above
the staff. You’ll have to use the \new Lyrics construct (as shown in the
notation manual) for those lyrics.
\score{
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff = "sopranoStaff" \with {
midiInstrument = "choir aahs"
instrumentName = "Soprani"
} { \new Voice = "sopranoVoice" { \soprano } }
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "sopStaff" } { \lyricsto
"sopranoVoice" \sopranoVerse_sup }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopranoVoice" \sopranoVerse_ru
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopranoVoice" \sopranoVerse
Should do the trick if I didn’t mess up the syntax (cannot validate as you
provided only the opening snippet, but the transition from \addlyrics to \new
Lyrics is required to specify the alignAboveContext)
\addlyrics is very limited in customisation power, it’s a shorthand for
creating the new Lyrics to the preceding voice (the music in between the braces
( {\soprano} ) implicitly creates an unnamed voice. In order to be able to use
the \new Lyrics you also need to explicitly create the voice and give it a name
to be able to reference it using the \lyricsto
> all the three texts are printed under soprano staff. But what i need is
> \sopranoVerse_sup printed over the soprano staff since there are two voices
> (sop I and II) and the don't sing the same text.
>
> Amy idea? the alignabovecontext Staff won't work inside \addlyrics
>
> tx for your attention
>
> Gian Paolo
>
>
> 11.04.2024, 18:54, "Hans Aikema" <[email protected]>:
>
>
> On 11 Apr 2024, at 16:59, Gian Paolo Renello <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi, i have a question:
> ho can i add a 5th voice (for soprano) in a SATB choral work. The 4 voices
> are all under the staff. I need the fifth one to be over the Soprano staff
> while the second soprano voices sings the part under the staff. See attached
> image. Thank you.
>
> There are some examples on lyrics placement documented at
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics
>
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically>
>
> For your score you would put two voices (Solo and Sopranos) in the Sopranos
> staff
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#single_002dstaff-polyphony
>
> and put the lyrics attached to the Solo above that staff, and the lyrics
> attached to the Sopranos below it. The location of each lyric can be
> controlled individually as documented on that page at
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically
>
> The preferred way is by coding the '\with { alignAboveContext = “<name of the
> staff>” }` to the Lyrics assigned to the Solo in your piece.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Hans
>
