Hi all,
I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set
my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I
just want to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12
before that), it's incredible what everyone has done, so much thanks!
A member of my choir wrote a new set of Preces and Responses, and we
read it last night. The conductor typed it up for him using Finale,
which he's not terribly proficient at using, so I volunteered to make a
nice copy of it using Lilypond. So far the only issue I have is working
out how to layout the page. I'd like to do it in the style of most other
Preces/Responses I've seen, where there's a single staff for the
priest's line, which stops, and then on the same horizontal line, a 2
staff ChoirStaff for the choir part starts. A bad ascii-art representation:
| ------------
priest: ---------- | ------------
| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------
and so on down the page. An example I found on the web:
http://static.musicroom.com/img/c/f/NOV441460.jpg
Poking around in the documentation/snippets and on google, I haven't
been able to find a way to do this. I've attached a basic file that
shows the musical structure I'm dealing with. Lilypond renders this with
line breaks between all the \score blocks, whereas I want to suppress
those, and just line break within \score blocks when appropriate. Can I
achieve this? If not, is something like:
http://static.musicroom.com/img/c/f/NOV290559.jpg the best I could hope
to do currently?
Alternatively, do I need to play games with stopping/starting staffs and
reprinting clefs/key signatures? If so, how do I make it look exactly
like the start of a new system (brackets, possibly instrument names, etc)?
Any suggestions and help much appreciated! Thanks!
Ben
\version "2.14.2"
%\paper { annotate-spacing = ##t }
\layout {
indent = #0
linewidth = #3000
}
global = {
\key c \major
\time 4/4
}
priestNotesOne = \relative c' { g1 }
priestLyricsOne = \lyricmode { "O Lord open thou our lips" }
sopNotesOne = \relative c'' { c4 c c c c c c c }
sopLyricsOne = \lyricmode { And our mouths shall show forth thy praise }
altoNotesOne = \relative c' { e4 e e e e e e e }
tenorNotesOne = \relative c' { g4 g g g g g g g }
bassNotesOne = \relative c { c4 c c c c c c c }
\score {
<< \new Voice = "priest" { \clef bass \voiceOne << \global \priestNotesOne >> }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "priest" \priestLyricsOne >>
}
\score {
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff = "sa" <<
\new Voice = "sopranos" { \voiceOne << \global \sopNotesOne >> }
\new Voice = "altos" { \voiceTwo << \global \altoNotesOne >> }
>>
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = #"sa" } \lyricsto "sopranos" \sopLyricsOne
\new Lyrics \with { alignBelowContext = #"sa" } \lyricsto "altos" \sopLyricsOne
\new Staff = "tb" <<
\clef bass
\new Voice = "tenors" { \voiceOne << \global \tenorNotesOne >> }
\new Voice = "basses" { \voiceTwo << \global \bassNotesOne >> }
>>
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = #"tb" } \lyricsto "tenors" \sopLyricsOne
\new Lyrics \with { alignBelowContext = #"tb" } \lyricsto "basses" \sopLyricsOne
>>
}
priestNotesTwo = \relative c { e4 g g a g g g }
priestLyricsTwo = \lyricmode { O God make speed to save us }
sopNotesTwo = \relative c'' { c4 c c c c c c }
sopLyricsTwo = \lyricmode { O Lord make haste to help us }
altoNotesTwo = \relative c' { e4 e e e e e e }
tenorNotesTwo = \relative c' { g4 g g g g g g }
bassNotesTwo = \relative c { c4 c c c c c c }
\score {
<< \new Voice = "priest" { \clef bass \voiceOne << \global \priestNotesTwo >> }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "priest" \priestLyricsTwo >>
}
\score {
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff = "sa" <<
\new Voice = "sopranos" { \voiceOne << \global \sopNotesTwo >> }
\new Voice = "altos" { \voiceTwo << \global \altoNotesTwo >> }
>>
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = #"sa" } \lyricsto "sopranos" \sopLyricsTwo
\new Lyrics \with { alignBelowContext = #"sa" } \lyricsto "altos" \sopLyricsTwo
\new Staff = "tb" <<
\clef bass
\new Voice = "tenors" { \voiceOne << \global \tenorNotesTwo >> }
\new Voice = "basses" { \voiceTwo << \global \bassNotesTwo >> }
>>
\new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = #"tb" } \lyricsto "tenors" \sopLyricsTwo
\new Lyrics \with { alignBelowContext = #"tb" } \lyricsto "basses" \sopLyricsTwo
>>
}
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