Re: combine chords, lyrics and melody - resending now that I've subscribed...

[Patrick Horgan]

ayryq wrote:

I believe you can, I was going to clip your stuff, build it on my 
machine, and build an example for you, but this example won't actually 
build on my machine.  Just as a hint, in the work I did for O Magnum 
Mysterium, I combined several thing like this:

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


> Is there any way to simply combine chords, lyrics, and melody sections into a
> single LP "variable?" I am trying to create pop leadsheets and my score
> sections look like this one:
> %------------------------------
> \score { <<
> 		\new ChordNames { \transpose g g { \set chordChanges = ##t 
> 			\override ChordName #'font-series =#'bold
> 			\override ChordName #'font-size = #1   
> 				\chorusharmonies
>                                 \verseharmonies
>                                 \chorusharmonies \postchorusharmonies
>                                 \bridgeharmonies
>                                 \chorusharmonies
>                                 \postchorusharmonies
>                 }}
>
>        \new Voice = "melody" \relative c' { \transpose g g {
>            \clef treble \key g \major \time 4/4
>                         \chorusmelody
>                                 \new Voice = "verse" \repeat volta 2 
> {\versemelody \chorusmelody
> \postchorusmelody}
>                         \bridgemelody
>                         \repeat volta 3 {\mark \markup {\smaller \italic \bold 
> {Chorus (3X)}}
> \chorusmelody}
>                         \postchorusmelody \bar "|."
>                  }}
>        \new Lyrics = "mainlyrics" \lyricsto melody {
>          \chorustext 
> 		 %verseonetext/versetwotext chorustext postchorustext
>                  \bridgetext
>                  \chorustext
>                  \postchorustext}
>        \context Lyrics = "mainlyrics" \lyricsto verse {
>         \verseonetext \chorustext \postchorustext}
>        \new Lyrics = "repeatlyrics" \lyricsto verse {
>         \versetwotext}
>      >>
> %-------------------
> The form is simple, but it is repeated three times for harmony, melody, and
> lyrics. It would be nice to be able to say chorus=<<\chorusharmonies
> \chorusmelody \chorustext >> and then just refer to \chorus in the score
> block. Is this possible?
>