Re: Divisi lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

What version of LilyPond do you use? I tried your example with both 2.10.33
and 2.11.39 and it compiles without any warning printouts and the result
looks fine. However, you are stretching the syntactic capabilities of 
LilyPond
a bit, since you are mixing a <<{...} \\ {...} >> construct (which gives 
multiple
voices in a single staff) with a << ... ... >> that you use to put a 
staff and a line of
lyrics in parallel. If I was to write the same piece of music, I would 
probably
write something along the lines of
\version "2.10.0"
\score{
<<
 \new Staff \relative c' <<
   { \voiceOne dis2( eis8 fis gis4) | fis2 fis4. fis8 |
      fis4 fis2 ~ fis4 | gis2 ais4 r4 } \\
   \new Voice = "vII" { \voiceTwo dis,2 (eis8 dis cis b) |
      ais2 b4. dis8 | cisis4 dis2( ais4) | cis2 fis4 r4 }
 >>
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "vII" {
     mun -- di, mi -- se -- re -- re no -- bis.
     }
>>
}

which more explicitly shows what is what. Note that I also have added 
bar checks,
which I find to be a good habit to quickly find rhythmical typos in the 
input.

   /Mats

siepmann wrote:
> This seems to be a commonly raised issue, but I'm perplexed as to why my
> attempt at a solution (below) has failed:
>
>   << { \voiceOne dis2( eis8 fis gis4) fis2 fis4. fis8 fis4 fis2 ~ fis4 gis2
> ais4 r4} \\
>       \new Voice = "vII" { \voiceTwo dis,2 (eis8 dis cis b) ais2 b4. dis8
> cisis4 dis2( ais4) cis2 fis4 r4}
>       \lyricsto "vII" \new Lyrics {
>         mun -- di, mi -- se -- re -- re no -- bis.
>       }
>    >>
>
> When compiling, the following warnings are raised:
>
> warning: adding note head to incompatible stem (type = 8)
> warning: maybe input should specify polyphonic voices
> warning: unterminated hyphen; removing
>
> Many thanks for any help.  I'm really enjoying using Lilypond!
>
> Peter
>
>   

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