On Sun 17 May 2026 at 15:34:19 (-0400), Gabriel Ellsworth wrote: > 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
Lyrics like that are very tedious to write, and you've still got to associate the voices to get the correct alignment. The only occasions I've used them was to meet the challenge of setting the same piece with repeats both folded and unfolded. (Farmer's Fair Phyllis I saw, and Tallis's If ye love me.) Cheers, David.
