Is my approach sane?)

[Patrick Horgan]

I've long wanted the mutopia O Magnum Mysterium transcribed by Jeff 
Covey with apparently much help from jcn to build with any current 
version of lilypond.  With the help of the excellent new documentation 
and several of the people here I have it working fairly well.  I want it 
to print the choral staff followed by each of the individual parts.  I 
found that I could throw in a new \score for each part and it works, 
but--is it wacky?  Is there a better way to do it?  I started with 
something quite old using the old style of lyrics and fear that I should 
have changed things more rather than less.  A vastly simplified version 
follows to illustrate what I'm doing in the first 9 bars:

\paper { set-paper-size = "letter" ragged-bottom = ##t }
\version "2.11.49"

global =  { \key aes \major \time 4/4 }

sopranoMelody =  \relative c'' {
       c1 f,2 c' ~ c4 c des des c2 r4
       f des ees f4. f8 f4 c des  c ~
       ( c8[ bes aes g aes bes c aes]  bes[ aes]  aes[ g16 f] g2 ~ g ) f
}

altoMelody =  \relative c' {
       r1 r2 f2 ~ f bes, f'2. f4 ges ges f2 r4
       f des ees f4. f8 f4 c des f2 ( e8[ d] e2 ) f
}

tenorMelody =  \relative c' {
       R1*7 r2 c2 ~ c f,2
}

sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode {
       O ma -- gnum __ my -- ste -- ri -- um
}

altoLyrics = \lyricmode {
       O _ma  -- gnum my -- ste -- ri -- um
       et ad -- mi -- ra -- bi -- le sa -- cra -- men -- tum,
}

tenorLyrics = \lyricmode { O _ma }

sopranoTotal = \simultaneous {
       \new Staff = "soprano" {
               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Soprano"
               \clef "violin"
               \new Voice="soprano"<< \global \sopranoMelody >>
       }
       \context Lyrics = soprano \lyricsto soprano \sopranoLyrics
}

altoTotal = \simultaneous {
       \new Staff = "alto" {

               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Alto"
               \clef "violin"
               \context Voice=alto<< \global \altoMelody >>
       }
       \context Lyrics = alto \lyricsto alto \altoLyrics
}

tenorTotal = \simultaneous {
       \new Staff = "tenor" {
               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Tenor"
               \clef "violin_8"
               \context Voice=tenor<< \global \tenorMelody >>
       }
       \context Lyrics = tenor \lyricsto tenor \tenorLyrics
}

\score { \new ChoirStaff = "choir" << \sopranoTotal \altoTotal 
\tenorTotal >> }

\pageBreak

\score { \sopranoTotal \layout{ } }

\pageBreak

\score { \altoTotal \layout{ } }

\pageBreak

\score { \tenorTotal \layout{ \context { \Score skipBars = ##t } } }
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