Re: lyrics on skips

[Mats Bengtsson]

Aaron wrote:
> This I assume is for second or third verses??
>
> How would I place the entire poem at the bottome of the notation.
>
> This is done a lot for world music/folk songs where the melody repeats
> and only the words change.
>
> Can I do this in Lily or must it be done elsewhere. (lilybook, latex
> etc.??)

I'm sure you can do it in LilyPond but the simplest solution I can
think of is a lilypond-book on a LaTeX document with embedded music.

   /Mats


> Thanks
> Aaron
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:13, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > One solution is to specify the duration of each syllable
> > manually, i.e. not to use \addlyrics:
> >
> > mylyricsline = \lyrics {This4 is2 a4 line8 of lyr-2 ics4 }
> >
> > If you have long sections of lyrics that follow the music, it
> > may be convenient to split it up and use \addlyrics for that
> > part and manual durations for the part without melody. As long
> > as you specify the same LyricsVoice context for both, they will
> > be typeset on the same line.
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> > Fulko van Westrenen wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would like to set lyrics on skips, text without melody.
> > > Is that possible without very clever lilypond-tweaking?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fulko
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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