On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 11:07 Christopher R. Maden, <cr...@maden.org> wrote:
> I’ve just released an album of sea chanteys (as threatened like a year > ago). I’m giving away a songbook with my arrangements — since I had to > make MIDI guide tracks for the recording anyway, why not? > > I’m struggling, though, with how best to engrave them. There are 3 to 6 > voices in each chorus, and putting them all on one staff is messy, but > making a proper ChoirStaff seems overkill. > > I’d welcome any advice (especially since I think of this as a showcase > for LilyPond) — the album home page is <URL: > http://music.maden.org/index.php?title=Shower_Chanteys >, and each track > link goes to a page with links to the LilyPond source, PDF, and MIDI > output (for the first 11 tracks, so far). > > Thanks in advance, > crism > -- > Chris Maden, text nerd > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ > > Emperor Norton had the right idea. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user I would put two lines to a staff at most. If there are an odd number of voices, give the time a line of its own. It can be quite tricky to read the middle line of a bunch of three-note chords, and the ability to do that separates the elite second soprano from the rest. Vaughan >
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