RE: One staff, two voices

[Daniel Rosen]

You always need to enclose simultaneous music in <<double angle brackets>>. 
Here's how the third bar of your fugue might look:

\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff = "upper" <<
    \new Voice {
      \relative c' {
        \voiceOne \key cis \major
        cis8 cis'16 bis cis dis eis fis gis16 fisis eis fisis gis fis eis dis |
      }
    }
    \new Voice {
      \relative c' {
        \voiceTwo
        r4 r8 cis eis16 dis cis dis bis'8 gis
      }
    }
  >>
  \new Staff = "lower" { \clef "bass" \key cis \major R1 | }
>>

This is the first time I've answered a question on the list (I've only asked a 
couple so far), but I don't think I'd be out of line by asking you to use tiny 
examples in the future. I wasn't sure what music belonged where in your 
example, and I had to get out my copy of the WTC to figure it out... not sure 
how many other users on here would have gone to that effort. ;-)

DR

From: Mark Stephen Mrotek [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:57 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: One staff, two voices

Fellow Users:

I am encoding a three part fugue (Bach). Two of the voices should be in the 
treble staff. The instructions in the on-line manual were followed (1.5.2 
Multiple Voices Explicitly instantiating voices).

When I enter code in { \voiceTwo } the notes are just appended wherever voice 
one stopped (I use Frescobaldi). I have checked the instructions several times. 
I must still be missing something.

To save space I have attached the code as a Lilypond file and as a Word file.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Mark Stephen Mrotek