Re: Divided voices

[David Kastrup]

northofscotland <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a question about the best way to produce music when it divides
> for maybe only a few bars in a piece.  I often come across this when
> setting SATB vocal works.  Straight forward SATB with a single voice
> to a line is simple enough, but I am struggling to find an elegant
> (and simple!) way to deal with a part that may divide into, say, S1
> and S2 perhaps only for a few notes in the whole piece.  The way I
> have sorted it so far is to duplicate the S line, put in the changed
> notes and substitute the common notes with skips, then combine them
> with something like \new Voice = "sopcombo" {\voiceOne << \global
> \sopMusic \sopDiv >> }
>
> Whilst this seems to work reasonably well I do seem to lose some
> articulations, slurs etc in the process, and it does seem rather
> cumbersome.

If your system is already occupied with the alto, you might want to
write

<< { parts for soprano1 } \\ { \voiceThree parts for soprano2 } >>

in order to have stems for both parts point upwards.

-- 
David Kastrup