Simon Albrecht-2 wrote > Am 29.07.2014 01:28, schrieb Marten: >> Hello Abraham, Simon, >> >> Thanks for your solutions and quick replies :) >> >> I decided to try to implement Simon's third solution, as it explicitly >> keeps the melody of the stanzas together with their texts. >> >> Ingenious - hadn't thought about a solution like that. >> >> I have two question about it though: >> 1. If I use \addlyrics instead of \new Lyrics for the stanzas, an ambitus >> will be rendered for the stanza and the refrain *separately* (a layout >> block activating the ambitus, must of course be added). If I use \new >> Lyrics, as in your solution, only one ambitus for the entire song is >> rendered (expected behaviour). Why is this so? > I find the question a bit confusing. Looking at Abrahams example (in the > answer he wrote) makes me wonder why you use separate voices for refrain > and verse. I can’t see any necessity to do so and it contradicts the > logic of the music: after all, refrain and stanza are not sung by > different singers. If you use two different voices, it’s only natural > that each gets an ambitus of its own. What would you expect? >> >> 2. If the stanza melody begins with a rest, the text gets aligned under >> the >> rest. Why? > Please try once more to understand the difference in the mechanisms of > my first and second examples: in the one with \addlyric, an association > between lyrics and the voice is created and each syllable is associated > with one note (thus, rests are skipped). > The other way does not use direct relation between lyrics and notes: > both are entered separately, with their own durations, and it’s up to > you to get the alignment in time correct. Lilypond will print everything > at the point of time where you put it, and if a rest and a lyric > syllable come at the same point of time, they will be aligned. > I hope you tried at least to understand the topic yourself from the > lenghty and fully sufficient description in the manuals, to which I > pointed you. Sometimes it takes a little time to comprehend, but it will > save the time of the friendly persons on this list who help you with > real problems. > > Best regards, Simon > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Simon, I knew I had seen this somewhere and didn't just make it up (as shown in the official docs): http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/solo-verse-and-two_002dpart-refrain <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/solo-verse-and-two_002dpart-refrain> I think your answer may still be better, by the way, in response to the original question :) Good work, Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Multiple-stanzas-to-selection-of-melody-tp165018p165158.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user