Thanks Ruud for a useful template. And thanks Mats for giving me some
insight into contexts. Taken together I am beginning to piece the
concepts together,
Ruud van Silfhout wrote:
rightHandMusic = \relative c' { c d e f }
leftHandMusic = \relative c { e f g a }
\score {
\context GrandStaff <<
\context ChoirStaff <<
\context Voice = sopranoVoice { \sopranoMusic }
> \context Lyrics = sopranoLyrics \lyricsto sopranoVoice
> {\sopranoLyrics }
..... etc
>>
I would like to check my understanding of how it is put together.
The score is made out of a GrandStaff, that is made out of ChoirStaff
and PianoStaff. The ChoirStaff is made from sopranoVoice, then
sopranoLyrics etc etc. There is a "link" indicating that the sop lyrics
belong to the sop line using \lyricsto
Going back to the SATB example (2 stave)
\context ChoirStaff <<
\context Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
\context Staff = women <<
\context Voice =
sopranos { \voiceOne << \global \sopMusic >> }
\context Voice =
altos { \voiceTwo << \global \altoMusic >> }
>>
\context Lyrics = altos { s1 }
etc
\context Lyrics = sopranos \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
This says you ahve some lyrics, a Staff (with 2 voices) some more
Lyrics. Then you jump back into the "Lyrics = sopranos" and say what
the words actually are, and that it links to the soprano.
One of the things that confused me about this is that "sopranos" is both
a name of a Lyric context and a Voice context. Presumably each has its
own name space.
Final questions - what is the s1 in "\context Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }".
My assumption is that is is "skip semibreve". Why do you need to tell
the lyrics how long the notes are - doesn't it get the lengths from
corresponding music?
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