Hello fellow Lilypond users,
I'm encountering a problem giving lyrics to polyphonic voices.
The soprano line for a song I'm scoring contains:
<< { d4 bf c2 d4 bf c } \\
{ bf4 f f2 bf4 f f } >>
r4
<< { f' bf, c f, f' } \\
{ d f, bf d, d' } >>When I add lyrics, using
\context Lyrics {
\lyricsto "soprano" \upperlyrics
}The lyrics stop where the polyphony starts. I have been told that this is because each polyphonic voice represents a different, anonymous voice, and therefore is not processed by \lyricsto at all.
I was able to hack around this in 2.2.x only by doing this:
\addlyrics
\context Voice = "soprano" {
\clef treble
\soprano
}
\context Lyrics ="lsoprano" {
\upperlyrics
}But that chokes Lilypond 2.4.x.
How can I tell Lilypond that (especially because each voice has the exact same rhythm) the polyphonic voices should be treated as one when processing lyrics?
Otherwise, what is the best way to name each subvoice? It doesn't make intuitive sense to have to name each one.
Also, I noticed that if I do this in 2.4.x:
\context Lyrics = "lsoprano" {
\lyricsto "soprano" \upperlyrics
} \context Lyrics = "lalto" {
\lyricsto "alto" \upperlyrics
}that is, if the lyrics are the same for soprano and alto voices,
and I reuse \upperlyrics twice, Lilypond junks all of the lyric
events on the alto voice. Copying \upperlyrics into identical \sopranolyrics and \altolyrics works.
The full .ly file is here (this works with 2.2 and is basically what I want it to continue looking like in 2.4):
http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/servants-chorus-1.ly
This one works with 2.4, but the lyrics get lost when the soprano voice breaks into polyphony:
http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/servants-chorus-1.snapshot.ly
Thanks,
-- Joshua Kwan
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