Re: Suppressing staff

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Helge Kruse" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Helge Kruse" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Suppressing staff


> Am 23.09.2012 19:26, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > Give the piano the lyrics?
> >
> > \score {
> > <<
> >      \new Staff { <<  \new Voice = "one" \singer >> }
> >      \new PianoStaff <<
> >        \new Staff = "pianoRH" { <<  \pianoRight >> }
> >        \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "pianoRH" } \lyricsto "1"
> > { \words }
> >        \new Staff { <<  \pianoLeft >> }
> >  >>
> >  >>
> > }
> >
> >
> > I've used the voice context "1" since you've used implicit voices in
> > your example.
>
> Phil,
> many thanks. That's nearly what I need. But there is one nasty thing I 
> could not solve. There are two measures where the rhythm is differs 
> between singer and piano right hand.
>
> I have annotated this in the second measure with an ossia that would have 
> the singer's melody. But I have no idea how I can "connect" this ossia 
> notes to the lyrics.
>
> I want to skip the singers staff to save space. Therefore I don't want to 
> print the ossia. It shows only how I want to deal with the lyrics 
> syllables. Any other (invisible) set of notes would do it. Can you help 
> here?
>
> > You might want to name the voices explicitly, in which
> > case the name would change.
> Advice appreciated and accepted. ;-)

Another attempt.  One thing we'd not been taking note of (and I now notice 
because of reading the NR about lyrics again) is that in lyricmode the 
syllables themselves have a duration.  So we can therefore write them with 
their own rhythm and they'll be close to aligning with the relevant note.

\version "2.16.0"

common = { \key g\major \time 3/4 }
% words = \lyricmode { La,4 la la, la. Tra8 -- la -- la -- la }

singer = \relative c'' {
  \common
  b a g | fis g8 b c d }

pianoRightA = \relative c'' {
  \common
  \voiceOne b4 a g |
  << { fis g b }
     \new Staff \with {  alignAboveContext = #"pianoRH" fontSize = #-2 }
     { fis4 g8 b c d }
  >>
}

pianoRightB = \relative c'' {
  \common \voiceTwo
  <e, c>2. | <d b> }

pianoLeft = \relative c {
  \common
  \clef bass d4. d8 d,4 g2 }

\score {
  <<
    \new PianoStaff <<
      \new Staff = "pianoRH" { <<  \new Voice="piano" \pianoRightA 
\pianoRightB >> }
      \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "pianoRH" } \lyricmode { La4 
la la la tra8 tra tra tra }
      \new Staff { <<  \pianoLeft >> }
    >>
  >>
}


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Phil Holmes