Kevin, if you don’t mind, I’m interested what you mean by the first system ending with a partial measure and the second system including vocals beginning with a partial measure? If you mean to break in the middle of one continuous measure, you could do this without partials via. \bar “” \break
-will Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 5, 2022, at 10:05, Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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 > > Kevin Cole, RHCE > ("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
