Re: Type setting chord analysis

[Valentin Villenave]

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From: Konzen, Richard A.
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Type setting chord analysis

Hello,

I found this thread while hunting for ideas on setting figured bass
and roman numerals for theory exercises since I’m a theory teacher and
like the flexibility of Lilypond for harmony examples plus my own
compositions.  I can create a score and get \figures to work, but when
I add \lyrics I find that Lilypond wants to place one roman numeral
per measure.  I’ve recreated the score in this thread and like the
results, but is there a way to do this without using the
/parallelMusic command?



Here is the score as I’ve done so far.

staffSATBMixedChoir = \new ChoirStaff {
    <<
    \new Staff {
        \time 3/4
        \set Staff.instrumentName="S/A"
        \key g \major
        \clef treble
        <<
        \context Voice = "melodySAT" \relative c'' { \voiceOne
        g4 g a fis4. g8 a4 b b c b4. a8 g4 a g fis g2. \bar "||"}
        \context Voice = "Alto" \relative c' { \voiceTwo
        d4 d e d4. cis8 d4 g g a g4. fis8 g4 e d d d2. \bar "||"}
        >>
    }

    \new Staff {
        \set Staff.instrumentName="T/B"
         \key g \major
        \clef bass
        <<
        \context Voice = "Tenor" \relative c' { \voiceOne
        b4 g c a4. a8 a4 d e e d4. c8 b4 c b a b2. \bar "||"}
        \context Voice = "Bass" \relative c { \voiceTwo
        g4 b c d4. e8 fis4 g e c d4. d8 e4 c d d g2. \bar "||"}
        >>
        }
    >>
}
\score {
    <<
        \staffSATBMixedChoir
%    >>
    \figures { s4 <6> <6> s4. <4 3>8 <6>4 s4 s4 <6>4 <6 4>4. <7>8 s4
<6>4 <6 4> 4 s4 s2.}
    \lyrics  {  I I ii } %obviously more numbers to go!
>>

}

I had another version of this that worked out rather well using
Frescobaldi which used a piano template with multiple voices, but the
roman numerals always appeared above the figured bass.  Using a
/lyricsto command didn’t work out well.

Thanks for taking a look at this.


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
> It certainly is. In your \score { } block, instead of using
> << \soprano \\ \alto >>
> (which creates two different Voices), try adding
> \new Voice { << \soprano \\ \alto >> }
> which will create only one single Voice context, and then "squash"
> your polyphony into it. (Not very elegant from a coding point of view,
> though; as I said before, I'd personally rather have two Voices on
> each Staff: as a pianist, I prefer to play two voices with each hand.)