Re: First time Voices user

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

The piece I'm typesetting is a modern chant "Our Father" that we use in 
our morning office.  It's sung acapella and has a melody and harmony 
line.  The lyrics, dynamics, and articulations are always in sync 
between the two parts, it's just that the harmony has a different note 
(effectively, the choir sings a chord, hence my first representation). 
Hollow note heads correspond to phrases on the same note, solid ones to 
single syllables.

I've been able to get a satisfactory visual output using chords, but 
decided to try and recast it using voices.  Since the same person can't 
sing both notes, I thought this would be a more accurate representation 
of the structure of the piece.  Also, I needed the practice using 
Lilypond this way.  As a result, you might say that this is mostly an 
exercise in using Lilypond.  Below is a link to a Dropbox folder with 
the project files for the full piece for those interested.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lsccob1w3hdnqgj/AACdcqz1W0x1GDSTw2oeO8mla?dl=0

> If you want to have distinct voices (for whatever reason) but want them to be 
> printed with only one (upper) articulation, then either write the articulations 
> to the upper voice only or (if you need them for MIDI) hide them in the lower 
> voice.

I'm not producing a midi file, so I can put the articulations in just 
one voice as suggested, but something about this strikes me as wrong 
(which may just be my relative inexperience showing).  My thinking is 
that both voices are articulated; putting marks in just one voice 
implies otherwise.  The hiding of simultaneous, identical articulation 
marks (leave just one showing) is kind of like the hiding of accidentals 
which appear in the key signature, a choice of presentation separate 
from the musical content.  In F major I still have to write "bflat'", 
even though the flat sign isn't printed, because that's the note to be 
sung.  Likewise, the articulation is "sung" and should be included in 
the musical content, even when it need not be printed.

Is this thinking wrong?

As for hiding the articulations, how would I go about doing that?  I 
assume that I'll need an \omit statement, similar to how I get rid of 
the stems, but only in the second voice. What would I be omitting?  I 
tried "\omit Articulation" and that didn't work (raised an error about 
"bad grob property path").

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Br. Samuel, OSB
(R. Padraic Springuel)

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