On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 9:54 AM H. S. Teoh via LilyPond user discussion < lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: > > With my very limited knowledge of music theory, I don't know what > term(s) > > to search for. > > I have a piece of music that starts with eight measures of piano, > before > > the vocal part comes in. So, it only shows the treble and bass clef > staves > > for eight measures, and then adds another staff when the vocals start. > > Usually that's called an introduction? "Prelude" literally would mean > the same thing, except that "prelude" is usually used to mean a > standalone extended movement meant to introduce a larger work -- 8 bars > would be a little short for that. > Yeah, I tried using "introduction" as one of my search terms originally, but given how often the word is used, I got too many irrelevant hits. > > > I'm guessing that once I know what it's called I can read up on it > > in the documentation and / or find a good example of how to code > > that in LilyPond. > > (I thought perhaps I could "cheat" and use something like lots of > > "s1" followed by a "\break" and it might hide that portion of the > > vocals because nothing's happening, but it didn't work and I > > suspect that's not the right way to think about it anyway.) > > Thanks. > > You could create a new vocal staff start 8 bars into the music; that > would have the intended effect, I think. > This is exactly what I want to do, but since I didn't know how, I tried searching for "introduction", "solo", "prelude", etc. and not finding what I was looking for. After my initial question, I found this: https://music.stackexchange.com/a/118864/17117 which seems to be solving the problem in a different way. But your answer makes more sense to me and is what I really want to go with. (The introduction starts with a "\partial" and ends with an incomplete measure also. Then, when the vocals start it's another "\partial".) I just have no idea what the syntax for starting a new staff "late" is. I searched for "introduction" but get too many hits. > T > > -- > Almost all proofs have bugs, but almost all theorems are true. -- Paul > Pedersen > > -- Physical [image: [Photo: Kevin Cole]] Kevin Cole, RHCE <http://launchpad.net/~kjcole/> ("ubuntourist") Brain-Washington, Disenfranchised City Virtual Git: https://codeberg.org/ubuntourist/ CV: https://stackoverflow.com/cv/ubuntourist/ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ubuntourist/ GPG Key ID: 0x3E696927 <http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/pubkey.php>
