Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

[Mats Bengtsson]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote Monday, March 01, 2010 2:59 PM
> > The main point of confusion is that you cannot do what seems most 
> > intuitive, namely to use the << \\ >> construct. You will never be 
> > able to make this point in the manual, unless you also include an 
> > example of what does not work. I was convinced that I had seen such 
> > an example somewhere in the documentation, but cannot find it right now.
>
> You may be thinking of 5.1.3 in the Notation Reference,
> which shows a similar situation but where the point being
> made is how to keep contexts alive when the melody line
> is silent for a few bars.  
Probably!
> Although even here there is no
> example of a construct that does not work.
It's my experience based on a number of years of teaching, that in 
situations like this one where the most intuitive approach does not 
work, it's far from enough to tell how to do it the right way, you also 
have to show why the intuitive approach does not work, preferably even 
by letting the student do the mistake himself first. There's still the 
risk that a few readers don't get the point and stick to the first (i.e. 
the erroneous) approach, but then they at least have been to the 
relevant page of the manual when doing it and is more likely to find 
their way back to the relevant information once they discover the problem.

   /Mats
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