Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Chubb <address@hidden> writes:

Peter> Hi, I've been trying to work out how to add dynamics to lyrics,
Peter> to give singers guidance.

For the benefit of search-engine-land, the way to do this is to use a
separate dynamics context.  Like this:

dynA={ s4\p s4\< s2 s4\mf s2. }
tune=\relative c' { c4 d e f g r2. }
words = \lyricmode { some sil -- ly words yah  }

\score {
       <<
       \new Staff \context Voice = tune \tune
       \new Dynamics \dynA
       \lyricsto tune \new Lyrics \words
       >>
}

The Dynamics context looks better above the words; if it's below with
Lilypond 2.15.3 it sometimes collides with the next staff down (assuming
multi-stave systems).
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