Dear Jogchum,

On Sun, 17 May 2026, Kieren MacMillan wrote:

> > Another question then: are the two solutions you give essentially the
> same, with only different naming? Or are they two different approaches?
>
> To my eye, they’re the same approach (at least fundamentally): attach
> lyrics to a voice that has all necessary rhythms, and then use some
> mechanism to turn display of the notes off.
>

Just a thought on another possible technique, although I haven’t used it
much if at all in my music:

Manual syllable durations might be a good option for you.

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#manual-syllable-durations

I hope this helps.

Gabriel

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