Re: Aligning lyrics to an invisible Voice

[Thies Albrecht]

Hi Aaron!

Just a few words as I'm no expert in using lyrics...

> The result is that the lyricsRhythm appears on it's own staff...
By doing

   \context Voice ...

you are implicitly instantiating a score for its own while the piano 
part is explicitly enclosed within

   \score ...

So you have two scores.

> and the lyrics do not appear...
This is due to the fact, that you've two scores. Voice 'lyricsRhythm' is 
part of score #1 while the call for adding lyrics to it is part of score 
#2, which doesn't know that voice. That also explains the error message 
you got.

A solution for your problem would be to add note lengths directly within 
lyricmode. (To be found at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/lilypond/Entering-lyrics.html#Entering-lyrics)
Unfortunately this means some redundancy when doing two or more stanzas.

There should be a lot more possiblities like adding a second voice to 
upper grand staff with invisible note heads etc. and setting stem 
direction for original upper voice to neutral.

Kind regards,
Thies Albrecht