Re: When a singer speaks rather than sings.

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.07.2014 22:03, schrieb address@hidden:
> In a vocal part I am notating, while the singer mostly
> sings notated pitches, there are a few parts
> where the singer will speak text in notated
> rhythm.
>
> When this is done is scores that I have seen,
> sometimes it is done with just stems, flags and
> beams (but no note heads) such as in
> the Charles Ives song "Charlie Rutlage".
> I have also seen it just written with
> the note heads as "x"s on a stave (such as
> with a percussion score).  How does
> one go about implementing either method
> in lilypond?  I do prefer the latter, though.
>
> Thank you for your help.

For the first you can simply remove the noteheads with

\omit NoteHead

(this will take effect in the voice immediately after you've written it).

To revert back to normal singing write

\undo \omit NoteHead.

For your desired appearance use

\override NoteHead.style = #'cross

as described in
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/note-heads.html

HTH
Urs

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