Re: Piano staff, single staff polyphony and lyrics

[Jonathan Kulp]

Ari,

Perhaps you can use the file attached to the following thread as a template:

http://www.nabble.com/Shrinking-to-fit-on-a-single-page-td19810965.html

His posting was asking how to fit the piece on a single page, but his 
song has lyrics between the staves and each staff has multiple voices on 
it.  Download the file called ThereIsAFountain-1.ly.

To remove the indentation on the first line put this inside your \paper 
block:

 indent=0\cm

I know you can make the slurs attach to the stem side if you use 
phrasing slurs and use either ^ or _ to tell it which direction to go:

\relative c' { fis2^\( ~ fis4 g c,\) }

Is that what you mean?

Hope that helps!

Jon

Ari Torhamo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to create a score which contains a piano staff, has single
> staff polyphony and has lyrics placed between the staves (only one
> voice). I have managed to create the staves and the different voices,
> but whatever I try I can't get the lyrics to work. I've been struggling
> with the lyrics for at least 12 hours, so I wouldn't mind if someone
> would help. I've read through the relevant sections of the documentation
> time after time, but the examples there don't quite fit into my
> situation. 
>
> This part of the documentation
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Piano-templates#Piano-templates
> explains how to place lyrics between the staves, but I haven't managed
> to apply the instruction to single staff polyphony.
>
> This page 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Single-staff-polyphony#Single-staff-polyphony
> explains how to do single staff polyphony, but the syntax used to create
> the staves is different from the document above, and I haven't been able
> to mix the information of these two. I've studied several other pages
> too.
>
> So, how do I place the lyrics between the staves? How about two of them?
> (I might figure that out myself, after I learn to do one). It would be
> nice to know the (structurally) simplest possible way. Or, if some extra
> bits would be useful, I'd like to know what the each bit is for (I like
> to understand what I do, so that I'm able to apply it to other
> situations).
>
> Here's the beginning of the score:
>
> ..............
>
> \version "2.10.33"
>
> sopraano = \relative c'' { 
> \key g \major 
> \cadenzaOn  
> g4( a) b b a2 gis 
> \bar "|" 
> a4 b c b a gis a1 
> \bar "|" \break 
> b2 a a a4( gis) a b c2( b) a2. b4\rest 
> \bar "|" \break 
> }
>
> altto = \relative c' { 
> d2( g4) g e2 e 
> e4 g g g e e e1 
> e2 e e e e4 g g1 e2. 
> }
>
> tenori = \relative c' { 
> \clef bass 
> \key g \major 
> b4( c) d d c2 b 
> c4 d e d c b c1 
> d2 c c c4( b) c d e2( d) c2. 
> }
>
> basso = \relative c' { 
> g2. g4 a2 e 
> a4 g c, g' a e <a a,>1 
> <gis gis,>2 <a a,> <a a,> <a a,>4( e) a g c,2( g') a2. d,4\rest 
> }
>
> \score {
>    \new PianoStaff <<
>       \new Staff << 
>          { \sopraano } \\
>          { \altto }
>       >>
>       \new Staff <<
>          { \tenori } \\
>          { \basso }
>       >>       
>    >>
>
> }
> .............
>
> Perhaps I might take this opportunity to ask another question. Is there
> a way to make the first line of the piano score to start from the
> beginning of the page, like the other lines? 
>
> Oh, and yet another: is it possible to have slurs to be placed between
> the tips of the stems, instead of between the note heads? This is how
> it's typically done for the music I'm trying to notate.
>
> I'm very grateful for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ari Torhamo
>
> P.S. Lilypond makes wonderful looking scores (only if making them would
> be a little easier :-) (yes, I tried the graphical front ends, but
> unfortunately they were too buggy)
>
>
>
>
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