Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: > 2014-03-05 20:49 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: >> >>> I am not top-posting >> >> I want to avoid ossia staves. They seem reasonably self-evident as >> alternatives for the potentially less playable runs (probably the end is >> the clincher). But how bad are those, anyway? The Midi sounds doable. >> And I am too lazy to look for my guitar and skills. > > Hi David, > > others already said a lot about the guitar part. > Let me write something about the melody and distribution of the text. > > I feel the melismata in the first part of the song are strange. > > Why not > > \version "2.18.0" > > \relative { > \key d \dorian > \time 3/4 > \partial 4 d'4 > f2 g4 | > a4.( b8) a4 | > g2 e4 | > c4. > } > > \addlyrics { A -- las, my love, you do me wrong } > > > as you do in the second part?
In "reality", I have a wide variety of syllable distributions for the various stanzas, depending on word stresses and stuff. Putting that down would effectively have precluded using slurs and \addlyrics/\lyricsto (too many exceptions then). Basically I tend to use "early starts" on the third beat when on a stressed syllable, but there is also a difference on whether it's up or down. I was too lazy to figure out a scheme and representation matching each stanza exactly to what I perform. The version here is more often close to what I use than not, putting a bit more of "excitement" into the stanzas than into the refrain. It is to be expected that people singing this by heart (which is really the only sensible way to do it) will have it morph into something better fitting their personal taste as well as the syllable/stress distribution. I'm not entirely convinced of all the distributions I use myself. Putting out a somewhat overmechanic version makes it more likely that the performers will rebel where appropriate, possibly finding better solutions than when given a "good enough" distribution. I did fix some syllables for the last stanza since they were actually horrible rather than so-so. > Though, it's your arrangement, your decision. > Just my 2ct -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
