Thanks to everyone who responded.
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <carsonm...@ca.rr.com> writes:
>
> When I write polyphony for the piano I use
> <<
> { %here pitches for top voice
> }
> \\
> { %here pitches for bottom voice
> }
> >>
Yes, your solution works and I have used it in the past.
I was trying to figure out how to use the "named voices" technique
as I was told it might be better for the polyphonic guitar
music that I write. And Mr. Nick Payne showed me how to do
just that.
Then, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com writes:
>
> > (1) In the guitar part, even though I have \voiceOne marked with \stemUp
> > and \voiceTwo marked with \stemDown, why do the stems go down
> > in both voices?
>
> Because there is only ever one voice. To create new voices, you need to
> write << ... \\ ... >> or explicitly \new Voice. If you write << ... >>
> that is just a way of rearranging the writing order in a single voice.
> In this particular case, all of \voiceOne \stemUp \voiceTwo \stemDown
> happen at the same musical time in the same voice. \voiceTwo takes
> effect, and \stemDown does nothing more since it is already implied in
> \voiceTwo.
Thank you for your explanation. So I was missing the
the "\new Voice" tags and brackets. To create this guitar
and voice example, I began working working from a piano choral
example that I had posted on this list and received some feedback on.
I got the example to work in that it did what I wanted, but
perhaps it was still not an example of lilypond best
practices. Although it is a four voice choral for piano, at
no time does this example use the "\new Voice" tag.
Appended is my working example for this choral. Should I be using
the "\new Voice" tag in this appended example? Might I be headed for problems
working this way without the "\new Voice" tag?
Thank you all again for your help and feedback.
\version "2.16.0"
\include "english.ly"
\score {
\new PianoStaff
<<
\new Staff = "up"
{
\clef "treble"
\time 4/4
\key cs \minor
<<
\voiceOne
{
\stemUp
e'2 e'2 e'2 fs'2 fs'2 e'2 ds'!2 ds'2 cs'1
}
\voiceTwo
{
\stemUp
cs'2 cs'2 cs'2 d'2 bs2 cs'2 cs'2 bs2 gs1
}
>>
}
\new Staff = "down"
{
\clef "bass"
\time 4/4
\key cs \minor
<<
\voiceThree
{
gs2 gs2 a2 a2 gs2 gs2 gs2 fs2 e1
}
\voiceFour
{
cs2 b,2 a,2 fs,2 gs,2 gs,2 gs,2 gs,2 cs1
}
>>
}
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\override SpacingSpanner
#'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8)
}
}
\midi {
\context {
\Staff
\remove "Staff_performer"
}
\context {
\Voice
\consists "Staff_performer"
}
\context {
\Score
tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 96 4)
}
} % \midi
} % score
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