Hmn, sorry to butt in,
but with folk music very often the tune stays the same but each verse
has slightly different rhythm.
In finale we use parenthetical notes or a second voice on the same staff
to represent the change of rhythm. That said we checked a number of song
books and found that almost
A piece I am typesetting had a similar issue I ran into. The notes were
equivalent to << { c4 } \\ { c8 c } >> or whatever the polyphony notation
is; lyrics just skipped the polyphony attempts anyways. Stanza 1 was the
hyphenated lyric and stanza 2 had a single word. The typesetting also had
On Monday April 19 2004 07:16, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
> for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
> in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
> See
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out
On Monday 19 April 2004 21.14, Jean Connelly wrote:
> Regarding:
> > It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
> > for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
> > in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
>
> Unfortunately, as I added verses to t
Regarding:
> It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
> for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
> in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
Unfortunately, as I added verses to the piece, I'd add more ties and then
I'd have to go back thro
It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Lyrics-context.html#The%20Lyrics%20context
a
Hello,
Thanks a bunch to Mats for the help with inserting multiple words under
the same note. I can't believe I missed that in the lyric section.
Anyway, now my problem is I can't figure out a good way to line up lyrics
properly when there are ties or slurs that differ from verse to verse.
Here
