Hi Karlin, If the text and music are by the same person, I often just write "Lyrics and Music by" or "Text and Music by" or whatever seems appropriate to the material.
Hope that helps! Kieren. > On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Karlin High <karlinh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a friend who's a beginning songwriter and LilyPond user. After > passing out his second song for review and comments, someone asked > "How come you have your full name at the top right as composer, but > only your initials at the top left as poet?" > > Hmm. We both thought initials for composer-as-poet was standard, but > now we see sheet music and songbooks go either way with this. Is there > a reason for initializing the poet when it's the same as the composer? > Maybe to make things look less redundant? Is it simply a matter of > taste, or a well-established convention? I did a few web searches, but > failed to find anything. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
