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Re: Gaps in lyrics


From: Richard Shann
Subject: Re: Gaps in lyrics
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:14:38 +0100

On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 12:11 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote:
> I'm setting a song with two verses. It's a madrigal, so there are
> fairly long stretches of "fa la la..." that are identical in the two
> verses. I'd like to have them "fa la la" part printed only once.
> 
> So...I've set verse one with all the words, including "fa la la".
> That's fine. I'd like to have verse two show only the different words,
> and leave a space where the "fa la la" is. 

I just did this in Denemo, I selected the notes and chose the Skip
Syllables in Selection command
it generated
\repeat unfold 8 \skip 1

where the 8 was the number of notes (syllables, as there were no slurs
etc) in the selection.

HTH

Richard

> 
> But I can't figure out how to tell Lily to not match word to the
> stretch of notes that correspond to the "fa la la" for the second
> verse. 
> 
> It looks like I could use \skip ... but I'd have to have one for each
> note to be skipped. Is there a way to tell Lilypond how many notes or
> measures to skip?
> 





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