Re: Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics

[Peter Heisen]

Trevor & Abraham,

Thank you for your excellent suggestions.  By comparing my code to yours, also realize the fundamental error of my ways.  I had

<<

\new Voice { Music with note }

{ Music with rest }

>>

but I should have had

<<

{ Music with note }

\new Voice { Music with rest }

>>

Apparently, this allows the lyrics to "see" the note and align appropriately.  It's simple looking at it now, but I didn't see it before.  Your additional recommendations simplify the code and make it look much better.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Peter

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:52 AM, tisimst <address@hidden> wrote:

Peter,

I like Trevor's suggestions. I'd also recommend the following:

1. In the first verse lyrics, change " " to "" (i.e., remove the space). This makes One line up better with the notehead. You can also do "\skip 4" instead. For some reason, in 2.18.2, using " " creates a manual melisma, which is not what you want in the first verse, I think.

2. Add "\once \tiny" to the note that is only used in the second verse (for clarity):

<<

  { \once \tiny \once \voiceTwo f }

  ...

>>

- Abraham

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Trevor Daniels [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Peter wrote Monday, April 27, 2015 8:25 AM

>  I have a song with two verses.  The lyrics to the second stanza occasionally have an extra syllable, such that there is a rest on that beat in the first verse but a note in the second verse.  I'm trying to address this using the code found in notation manual (v. 2.18.2) in Section 2.1.3 "Stanzas", subsection "Switching to an alternative melody".  See http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/stanzas#stanzas-with-different-rhythms.  But I cannot get the lyrics to recognize and line up with the added beat in the second stanza.  An example, as minimal as I was able to get it, follows below.  Can anyone help?  Also, is there a simpler approach that works for this, so I don't have to define a new alternative voice every time this situation occurs?

I'd use a simpler approach, like this (it's usually easiest to keep as many notes as possible in the music associated with the lyrics, using skip or " " to skip them as necessary):

\version "2.18.2"

melody_verse = \relative c' {
  c4
  <<
    { \once \voiceTwo f }
    \new Voice { d'4\rest }
  >>
  g,4 a |
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff {
      \new Voice = "main" {
        \repeat volta 2 { \melody_verse  }
      }
    }

    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "main" {
      One " " three four.
    }

    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "main" {
      Uno dos tres quatro.
    }
  >>
}

Trevor

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