P Scott Horne wrote:
In a song with a short polyphonic section at the end, I wrote something like this:
<< { f g } \\ { d e } >> r4 << { a b } \\ { f g } >>
It worked as expected, giving a single rest appropriately centred on the staff. This approach seemed more sensible than defining separate Voice contexts for just a few measures.
Unfortunately, the alignment of lyrics came out wrong; the lyrics for each notehead were all pushed off somewhat to the right. To solve that problem, I gave up and created two voices, as follows, so that I could associate the lyrics with a single voice:
\context Staff = melody << \time 4/4 \clef treble
\context Voice = melodysoprano { \voiceOne \melodysoprano } \context Voice = melodyalto { \voiceTwo \melodyalto } >>
An alternative would have been to do
\context Voice = melody {
...
<< \context Voice = melody {\voiceOne f g} \\ { \voiceTwo d e } >> \oneVoice r4 ...}
or
\context Voice = melody {
...
<< {\voiceOne f g} \new Voice {\voiceTwo d e } >> \oneVoice r4 ...}or to exploit that the Voice contexts created by <<{...} \\ {...}>>
are called "1" and "2", respectively:\context Voice = "1" {
...
<< {f g} \\ { d e } >> \oneVoice r4 ...}
\lyricsto "1" ...However, in version 2.4, the intention is that you should be able to use \partcombine to solve this problem, see the mailing list archives of lilypond-user and/or lilypond-devel to find out what was recently discussed on using \partcombine for choir music.
/Mats
The voice "melodysoprano" includes the entire unison part at the beginning and the upper part in the closing polyphonic section. The voice "melodyalto" starts with "s1*18" (skip ahead eighteen measures) and then gives the notes for the lower part of the polyphony.
This, together with a single "\lyricsto" instruction for all five lines of lyrics, corrects the spacing. But the rests in the polyphonic section are doubled (one atop the other), and those in the monophonic section are raised to the top line of the staff. Also, all the stems and slurs point up.
How can I indicate that parts of this staff are monophonic and should be set as such?
Scott Horne
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