2 quick questions from a music teacher

[Matthew Thibeault]

Hello and thanks for such a fantastic program. I am a music teacher  
with experience with programs like Sibelius. I am just learning  
Lilypond in hopes of using it with the students I teach at the School  
of the Arts in San Francisco. I really enjoy Lilypond.

I do have two quick questions that I can't seem to deal with. I'm  
sure that there are easy answers, but after 2 hours of trying I  
figured maybe an email would work better. For both questions, I've  
included a sample of the code I'm using.

1. I am making a sight-singing book with my students that we plan to  
post to Mutopia when finished. The formatting looks great, but I must  
be missing something, because when I put a composer header for each  
melody, the last name appears at the head of the document. I would  
also like to insert a number before each staff so that the melodies  
are clearly numbered.

2. I work with an autistic student who is non-verbal. He loves music  
and can read basic music. I am using the EasyHead notes. I find  
they're hard to read unless I make things big. I have enlarged the  
staff and modified the lyrics so they are smaller, but the title and  
space between title and the music is too big. I would also like to  
insert a comment so that there are no bar numbers visible (since any  
non-critical information is a distraction I'd like to avoid).

I am putting my snippets below for 1 and 2. In addition, I would love  
it if there were someone in the San Francisco Bay area who might be  
able to provide a lesson or two. I'd be happy to pay. In addition, if  
I could find someone online, that might also work, but probably not  
as well. I believe that I fall into the same space as many teachers  
in that I'm uncomfortable with some of the basic conventions that  
seem to be inferred from Lilypond, such as argument, etc.

Thanks for any possible help,

Matthew Thibeault

Snippet from sight singing (I would like a composer header to appear  
at the end of each line, which currently does not happen):

    \version "2.6.0"
\score {
  \header {
title = \markup \center-align { "La-Sol-Mi Melodies" }
composer = "Courtney Mark"
  }
     melody = \relative c'' {
        \clef treble
        \key c \major
        \time 2/4

a4 a
a8 g g e
r2
e8 a g4
a8 e r4
r a
e2
r8 a e g \bar "|."
     }

     \score {
        \new Staff \melody
        \layout { }
        \midi { \tempo 4=60 }
     }
}

\score {
  \header {
composer = "Deanna Suisala"
  }
     melody = \relative c'' {
        \clef treble
        \key c \major
        \time 2/4
g2
g8 a e4
g4 e
g8 e g a
g4 e
e e
a2
\bar "|."
     }
  \score {
        \new Staff \melody
        \layout { }
     }


Snippet 2 (I would like to remove bar numbers, page numbers, and  
decrease the size of the title as well as the large space between the  
title and the beginning of the music):

     \version "2.6.0"
  \header {
    title = \markup \center-align { "Old MacDonald" }
tagline = " "
  }

  melody = \relative c'' {
        \clef treble
        \key c \major
        \time 4/4
     \setEasyHeads
#(set-global-staff-size 50)

c4 c c g
a a g2
e'4 e d d
c2. g4
c4 c c g
a a g2
e'4 e d d
c2. g8 g
c4 c c g8 g
c4 c c2
c8 c c4 c8 c c4
c8 c c c c4 c
c4 c c g
a a g2
e'4 e d d
c1 \bar "|."
     }

     text = \lyricmode {
\set fontSize = #-4
Old Mac -- Don -- ald
had a farm
E I E I O and
on this farm he
had a cow
E I E I O with a
moo moo here and a
moo moo there
here a moo there a moo
Ever -- y -- where a
moo moo
old Mac -- Don -- ald
had a farm
E I E I O

     }

     \score{
        <<
           \context Voice = one {
              \autoBeamOn
              \melody
           }
           \lyricsto "one" \new Lyrics \text
        >>
        \layout { }
        \midi { \tempo 4=60 }
     }