Re: Multiple stanza lines under second section of music

[Thomas Morley]

2016-03-28 13:53 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
> 2016-03-28 13:14 GMT+02:00 Henry Law <address@hidden>:
>> I am scoring a simple song which begins with its refrain, after which each
>> stanza is sung, followed again by the refrain.  I therefore need the words
>> of the refrain to appear once under the first few bars (on the line below
>> the melody staff), but multiple lines of words to appear under the staff for
>> the remaining bars.
>>
>> Thus (warning: fixed-pitch font required)
>>
>> Words of the refrain! Verse one.All together now .. :
>>                       Verse two, and we sing ..      :
>>                       Verse three, etc
>>
>> I tried hacking it by creating a lyrics variable consisting of nothing but
>> spaces and then prepending it within the \addlyrics command for all but the
>> first verse, but (a) it's kludgy, and (b) it provoked a weird error where
>> the chords of the second and subsequent systems were overlayed on the staff
>> lines!
>>
>> This must be a common thing to want to do: lots of folk songs have this
>> layout. Can someone tell me the right way to do it?  (Small fragment
>> attached, showing how I don't want to do it!)
>
> Thanks for it, makes it all easier for me.
> Though, why \version "2.16.2"? This version is outdated for several years.
> I'd recommend to upgarde, at least current stable, i.e. 2.18.2
> The current devel-version is "2.19.38", far from being unstable ...
>
>
> Ontopic, how about:
>
> \version "2.16.2"
>
> global = {
>   \time 4/4
>   \key c \major
> }
>
> chordNames = \chordmode {
>   \global
>   \partial 4 s4 |
>   c2 d:min | g2:sus4 g | c2
> }
>
> melody = \relative c'' {
>   \global
>   % Refrain: upbeat and one bar
>   \new Voice = "refrain" {
>   \partial 4 a8 b8 |
>   c4 d4 d8( f8) f4 \bar "||"
>   }
>   % Verse: full bar and partial bar matching the upbeat
>   \new Voice = "verses" {
>   c4 d4 e4 d4 | c4 c r4
>   }
>   \bar ":|"
> }
>
> verse_one = \lyricmode {
>   This is verse one.
>   It ends here
>   }
>
> verse_two = \lyricmode {
>   This is verse two.
>   The end
>   }
> refrain = \lyricmode {
>   And the re -- frain is here
>   }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new ChordNames \chordNames
>     \new Staff { \melody }
>     \new Lyrics = "ref" \lyricsto "refrain" \refrain
>     \context Lyrics = "ref" \lyricsto "verses" \verse_one
>     \new Lyrics = "v2" \lyricsto "verses" \verse_two
>   >>
> }
>
>
> \addlyrics has improved since 2.16.2, but it would have failed in your
> use-case even with newer version as well.
> In general, apart from very basic use-cases, don't use \addlyrics but
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto ...
>
>
> HTH,
>   Harm

Also, the NR shows a different way in
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#lyrics-and-repeats
Scroll down to
"More verses may be added in a similar way:"
Simply delete the "\repeat volta 3"-command.

Cheers,
  Harm