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Re: Combining voices in American Hymns


From: David Wright
Subject: Re: Combining voices in American Hymns
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:32:59 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 21:56:04 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote:
> On 12/09/16 19:21, Karlin High wrote:
> > On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote:
> >> Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and down) 
> >> when the voices share a note?  \partcombine does not appear to do this by 
> >> default.
> >>
> >> American SATB hymns are typically engraved with the soprano and alto 
> >> voices combined and the tenor and bass voices combined.  If a note in the 
> >> soprano voice has the same duration as the note in the alto voice, then 
> >> the notes for soprano and alto will share a stem.  If the durations are 
> >> different, then there is no sharing.  And if the notes are the same 
> >> duration and the same pitch, then the note with have both an up stem and a 
> >> down stem.
> > 
> > You're not alone with difficulties on American-style part combining. 
> > Another LilyPond user shared some of her work with me, and I'm still 
> > studying the approach she uses. Below is a small example I'm using for 
> > experiments. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of LilyPond; 
> > maybe someone will take one look and say, "That will mostly work, but 
> > you will run into problems with such-and-such situations."
> > --
> > Karlin High
> > Missouri, USA
> <snip>
> 
> How is this "American-style"?  It sounds just the same as hymnbooks on
> this side of the pond have done since (at least) the 19thC.  I tried to
> enclose a scan of "Hymns Ancient & Modern" (the standard Anglican
> hymnbook) of 1868 but it was rejected as too large [sorry moderator].
> Briefly: SA in the treble clef, TB in the bass, note heads combined
> where appropriate with the stems indicating which voice they apply to.
> Is this not what you were describing?

Three examples attached. The words in the English style will be
printed below. (This post is an oversimplification.)

Cheers,
David.

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