Re: Add second set of lyrics part way through a movement

[David Wright]

On Sat 20 May 2017 at 12:26:46 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> > The net result wants to look rather like this:
> > "... peccata mundi, miserere nobis."
> > "                   dona nobis pacem."
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Since the number of syllables is identical, you *could* just put columns for 
> each of those lyrics.

Any melismas wouldn't look nice.

> But the better overall attack would be to write each set of lyrics out, using 
> variables and/or skips as necessary, and then layer them in as two Lyric 
> contexts.

IIRC the CPDL/Victoria web site uses a simultaneous construction
to do this, but with version 1.4.12 it's rather dated syntax.
For Remy, attached.

Cheers,
David.

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