Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

[Garrett McGilvray]

On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson <address@hidden> wrote:

So this would be your basic setup:

\score {

   \new Staff = "top" {

    << \new Voice = "sopVerse" { } % voice for verse melody and combined alto

         \new Voice = "altoVerse" { } % voice for verse alto lines that require separate stem, such as "days" on line 2

    >>

    << \new Voice = "sopChorus" { } % voice for chorus melody and combined alto

         \new Voice = "altoChorus" { } % voice for chorus alto lines that require separate stem, particularly "gently home" at end

    >>

  }

  \new Staff = "bottom" {

    << \new Voice = "tenVerse" { } % voice for verse tenor lines requiring separate stems

         \new Voice = "bassVerse" { } % voice for verse bass and combined tenor stems

    >>

    << \new Voice = "tenChorus" { } % voice for chorus tenor lines requiring separate stems

         \new Voice = "bassChorus" { } % voice for chorus bass and combined tenor stems

    >>

  }

}

You'll then associate your lyrics with the proper voices.

Oh dear, I did some testing yesterday, and I thought I had it figured out following Carl's model above, but today I tried adding lyrics, and I get an error: " programming error: Moment is not increasing.  Aborting interpretation." I have tried to make a sample following the model above, and for simplicity's sake I have brought it down to a single clef. Try this and it will work beautifully (I'm on 2.16.2 and Mac OS 10.8.5) :

\version "2.16.2"

sopVerse = \relative c' {

  \time 3/4

  \voiceOne

  c4^"Verses" <c d> <c e>

}

altoVerse = \relative c' {

  \voiceTwo

  c4 s2

}

sopChorus = \relative f' {

  \voiceOne

  f4^"Chorus" <f g> <f a>

}

altoChorus = \relative f' {

  \voiceTwo

  f4 s2

}

\score {

  \new Staff = "top" \relative c' {

    <<

      \new Voice = "sopVerse" { \sopVerse }

      \new Voice = "altoVerse" { \altoVerse }

    % \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopVerse" { one two three }

    >>

    <<

      \new Voice = "sopChorus" { \sopChorus }

      \new Voice = "altoChorus" { \altoChorus }

    % \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sopChorus" { four five six }

    >>

  }

}

That works like you would expect, but uncomment the two "\new Lyrics" lines and it will cause the error. Is there something wrong with the way it is laid out? I tried really hard to mimic Carl's model, and I can't find that I'm missing anything.