Hi Kieren and Elaine,
First of all, thanks for your response, much appreciated!
@Kieren: the word "Dev/null" did not occur in our conversation here a
number of days ago, but maybe it is what you called "a hidden voice"
then? And maybe that's the same as what @Elaine calls "aligning to a
NullVoice"?
While - of course not to my surprise - both snippets you gave do what I
want to achieve, those concepts are new to me, and I would have to study
them to learn why they work, and how I should use it. At a first glance
it seems more complicated to me, and I would have to dive into it before
using this approach.
I still don't know why the \set associatedVoice construct Kieren gave in
our previous conversation and which I find more easy to understand, does
not work in the 1-bar polyphon.
Is that impossible indeed? In that case I will have to make time to
study the new-to-me code.
Another question then: are the two solutions you give essentially the
same, with only different naming? Or are they two different approaches?
Thanks again,
regards, Jogchum
Op 16-05-2026 om 21:24 schreef Kieren MacMillan:
Hi Jogchum,
I’m not sure of the exact answer to your question, but I do recommend again
that you consider a Devnull spacer voice, e.g.
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.32"
\paper {
% Add space for instrument names
indent = 18\mm
short-indent = 10\mm
}
global = {
\key g \major
\time 3/4
}
alto = \relative c'' {
\global
r2 g4 ^\mf \time 4/4
<< { \voiceOne b2(a4)a
a2(g)
}
\\
\new Voice = "alto1" { \voiceTwo g2. g4
g1
}
>>
\oneVoice
g2 \tuplet 3/2 { g2 g4 }
g4 g2 g4 ^\f
<< { \voiceOne b2(a4) a
}
\\
\new Voice = "alto1" { \voiceTwo g2. g4
}
\oneVoice
a2(g)
<g e> \tuplet 3/2 { <g~ es(>4 <g d)> <g c,> } \time 3/4
<a d,><g d>2
R2.*2
r4 g ^\mp g fis
fis(e8)g~~g2 \fermata
}
spacer = {
\global
r2 g4 2. 4 1 2 \tuplet 3/2 { 2 4 } 4 2 4 2. 4 1 2 \tuplet 3/2 { 2 4 } 4 2 R2.
R2. r4 4 4 4 4. 8
}
altoVerse = \lyricmode {
Mag -- ni -- fi -- cat a -- ni -- ma me -- a,
Mag ni -- fi -- cat a -- ni -- ma me -- a, an cil -- lae su -- ae.
}
choirPart = \new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff \with {
midiInstrument = "choir aahs"
instrumentName = "Alt"
shortInstrumentName = "A."
} \new Voice \alto
\new Devnull = "spacer" \spacer
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "spacer" \altoVerse
\score {
\choirPart
}
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
There are ways to automate the generation of the notes in that spacer variable
— I just didn’t want to get into that here, so I manually wrote out the rhythms.
Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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