Re: ossia and lyrics

[Phil Holmes]

Could you let us know what version of LilyPond you're using? - aspects of 
this have changed recently

Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bobroff" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:28 PM
Subject: ossia and lyrics


I've been tasked with altering a score I've prepared.  The score
currently consists of a piano part with a vocal line and a contrabass
obligato line.  As it stands, all is well.  Now I need to put in ossia
passages for the voice.  I have managed to create ossia passages by
using examples in the manual but I'm running into a problem with getting
the lyrics to appear.  I want the ossia musical passages to appear above
the original but I don't want lyrics under the ossia passage, only under
the original.  I currently have the separate elements of the vocal
material defined like this:

% Lyrics
soprano = \lyricmode { "soprano lyrics" }

% music
sop =  \relative c'' { the soprano's music }

% assembled lyrics and music
vocal = {
<<
    \new Voice = sop \relative {
<<
    \clef G
    \global
    \sop
>>
    }
    \addlyrics { \soprano }
>>
}

I'd like to define my ossia sections and put them together with the
definitions I already have without doing too much violence to the work
I've already done.  I was experimenting with the ossias (ossiæ?) from
section 1.6.2 of the Notation Manual but ran into trouble with the
lyrics not showing up and getting an error about; cannot find Voice
'uniqueContext0' or something to that effect.  I suspect there is some
detail involving nesting, contexts or something which is proving beyond
my ability to locate and/or decipher in the docs.

Help?

-David

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