Re: many-lyrics separator (slightly OT)

[Alicuota618]

Dear Alexander,

About poem, yes, I agree, but spanish songs translators generally dont
care about original rythm (in other words, they dont do the job right
- but the songs are known this way) and there are songs with different
rythm from stanza to stanza too. So this is better to have the text
under music, at least in this case, I suppose.

How do you:
- set stanza # repeating at each new system?
- draw a line-separator between lyrics

Thanks again

F



2015-01-05 10:18 GMT-05:00, Alexander Kobel <address@hidden>:
> On 2015-01-05 15:03, Alicuota618 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Considering a choir-setting with many stanzas, the text makes this is
>> a little bit ugly to read, specially for amateur-choirs in stressing
>> situation (concert...).
>>
>> How does engravers eventually make these lyrics more readable?
>> I think of four possibilities:
>> - repeating the stanza # at each system, but I dont want this solution...
>> - make some stanzas in italic
>> - change some stanzas for sans-serif
>> - draw a line-separator every 3-4 stanzas (but how to do that with ly?)
>>
>> Did somebody found any hymn-setting with this kind of typesetting?
>
> Hi,
>
> I've never seen option 3 (sans-serif), but all the others.  The one I
> like most is 4, using a little bit of whitespace (instead of a
> rule-/line-separator) after three stanzas.  This can easily be achieved
> by overriding nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing.minimum-distance for the last
> stanza of each such group.
> Option 1 can help in addition, in particular if for some reason only
> some of the stanzas are sung.  (Happens more often than not for those
> pieces in churches here.)  Italics I prefer if text is given in several
> languages.
>
> If you go for readability, however...  As a singer, I prefer if
> additional stanzas are written after the score, like a poem, and only <=
> 3 are printed between the staves.  More than 4 stanzas (at most, and
> only if there is no fifth one) are too difficult for me to catch easily.
>   In particular, if you have a usual SATB setting with >= 2 staves, the
> lower voices notoriously have trouble with large distance between notes
> and first stanza.
> OTOH, if the singers get the melody after three stanzas, it suffices to
> have them as a "poem" (in particular if you can avoid page turns in
> between).  If they don't get the melody, they have to rehearse the piece
> anyway to coordinate lyrics even if you print eleven stanzas below the
> notes, and once they rehearsed, the "poem" will be enough again.
> Just my two pence...
>
>
> HTH,
> Alexander
>