northofscotland <strath100-...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > I have a question about the best way to produce music when it divides > for maybe only a few bars in a piece. I often come across this when > setting SATB vocal works. Straight forward SATB with a single voice > to a line is simple enough, but I am struggling to find an elegant > (and simple!) way to deal with a part that may divide into, say, S1 > and S2 perhaps only for a few notes in the whole piece. The way I > have sorted it so far is to duplicate the S line, put in the changed > notes and substitute the common notes with skips, then combine them > with something like \new Voice = "sopcombo" {\voiceOne << \global > \sopMusic \sopDiv >> } > > Whilst this seems to work reasonably well I do seem to lose some > articulations, slurs etc in the process, and it does seem rather > cumbersome.
If your system is already occupied with the alto, you might want to write << { parts for soprano1 } \\ { \voiceThree parts for soprano2 } >> in order to have stems for both parts point upwards. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user