Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm curious...did you happen to notice any examples where the engraver > chose to split the measure that might be indicative of an approach? If > I were to have done something like this for a hymnal/songbook, I would > have split the measure and would have kept the entire lyrical phrase > on a single system.
I haven't found any examples with ties exactly as we've been discussing. It seems styles or opinions have changed over time or varied between publishers. For a good possible example, I turned to the old Peters score of Schubert's Ständchen (Horch, horch, die Lerch') - nearly every line of text begins with an upbeat - and the engraver kept each bar intact. In the same volume, the beginning of Das Wandern (first song of Die schöne Müllerin) has the piano introduction and the single word "Das" on the first line, and the end of the last page has (looking a bit lonely) the first word of the next verse and a segno. However, in the 1988 Baerenreiter/Henle set of Schubert songs, vol 7, the engraver seems quite willing to break bars in exactly the way I think you mean - for example, in "Irdisches Glück" the piano introduction finishes on beat three-and-a-half, and the singer's eighth note is on the next line, where you and I both know it belongs. :) In the same vein, the middle of the verse of that song has a new theme that starts on beat two-and-three-quarters, and the page break is comfortably set at that point in the bar. But then only a few pages further on in the book, in Am Fenster, a similar thing might have been done but was not done - there are "widowed" eighth notes on several lines. It seems to me that breaking bars in vocal music has never been consistently practiced by any good publisher except for the publishers of well-made hymn books, who seem to have done it as a matter of course. If they ARE being consistent, then they must have run into more important reasons why NOT to break the bars, in those other songs; and I don't know what those reasons are. My understanding of the engraving process and its rules is sketchy at best. -- David R _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
