Re: sunday school music

[Tim Litwiller]

Ok, that fixes something I hadn't noticed yet :)
Maybe that will help with a question I was saving for after I got the 
flags problem fixed.
I have some songs that alto, tenor or bass have some repeating in the 
chorus.

like the song that Gordon Gilbert sent. 
in the chorus the soprono and alto sing line a abd tenor and bass sing 
line b
hope fully this example comes thru - without word wrap ruining it.
if not, I can scan it so you can see what I mean when I get home.

a. there is power            power wonder working power in the 
blood                   of the          Lamb
b. there is power there is power wonder working power                   
in the blood          of the Lamb

a. there is power             power wonder working power in the precious 
blood of the Lamb
b. there is power  there is power wonder working power in the precious 
blood of the Lamb

Ralph Little wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> OK I see the problems you are having with \partcombine and lyrics now.
>
> AFAICS, \partcombine seems to mess with the parts to the extent that 
> there is no single Voice available that the lyrics can follow. The 
> example I tried shows that the documented "one" and "two" voices only 
> contain the notes that are separated (not chords) so you only get 
> lyrics beneath the separate notes.
>
> Looking at a dump of the stream event output, there are voices "one", 
> "two", "shared", and "solo". I think the notes are directed at 
> different voices depending on whether they are separate or not, so I 
> suspect linking the lyrics to a voice is a non-starter for the case of 
> \partcombine. My suspicion is that \partcombine was never intended to 
> be used with lyrics, but I could be wrong.
>
> There is an example in the Lilypond docs which show how to generate 
> lyrics independently of other voices and that might be the way to go. 
> See "7.3.5.4 Lyrics independent of notes"
>
> OK, enough of that moaning, using the above method, here is what I get 
> which seems to work with the previous "fix" for part-combine.scm.
>
> The method involves using the top-most voice and creating a "pseudo" 
> DevNull voice context which the lyrics can track. It exists but there 
> is no output.
>
> You get a big pile of warnings which I think is a bug because you get 
> the warnings with the example in the doc also.
>
> -------------------
> \version "2.11.32"
> \include "english.ly"
> \header {
>    title="Fishers Of Men"
>    poet="Harry D. Clark"
>    composer="H.D.C"
> }
> \layout {
>    indent = #0
> }
> PartsOne = {
>    \relative c' {
>        \aikenHeads
>        f4 f f g
>        a8 a4 gs8 a2
>        g8 g4 fs8 g2
>        f8 f4 d8 c2
>    }
> }
> PartsTwo = {
>    \relative c' {
>        \aikenHeads
>        c4 c c c
>        f8 f4 f8 f2
>        e8 e4 ds8 e2
>        c8 c4 bf8 c2
>    }
> }
>
> PartsTop = {
>    \key f \major
>    \clef treble
>    \partcombine \PartsOne \PartsTwo
> }
>
> PartsThree = {
>    \relative c' {
>        \aikenHeads
>        a4 a a bf
>        c8 c4 b8 c2
>        c8 c4 c8 c2
>        a8 a4 bf8 a2
>    }
> }
>
> PartsFour = {
>    \relative c' {
>        \aikenHeads
>        a4 a a bf
>        c8 c4 b8 c2
>        c8 c4 c8 c2
>        a8 a4 bf8 a2
>    }
> }
>
>
> PartsBottom = {
>    \key f \major
>    \clef bass
>    \partcombine \PartsThree \PartsFour
>   }
>
> \score {
> <<
>    \new Staff = top
>    { <<          \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'()
>        \PartsTop
>        \new Devnull="nowhere"  \PartsOne
>
>        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "nowhere" { \set stanza = "1. " I will 
> make you fish-- ers of men fish-- ers of men fish-- ers of men }
>        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "nowhere"  { \set stanza = "2. " Hear 
> Christ call-- ing Come un-- to me Come un-- to me Come un-- to me }
>    >> }
>    \new Staff = bottom
>    {          \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'()
>        \PartsBottom
>    }
> >>
> }
>
> Regards and have fun!
> Ralph