Re: Difference Between \lyricsto and associatedVoice With Melody Rhythm

[Bill Mooney]

Hi Matthew,
You wrote:-
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But this seems to work as expected:

\new Staff << {
        \new Voice = "unsung" \relative {
                a'1
                \new Voice = "sung" {
                        b4. b8 b4. b8
                }
                e1 f1
        }
}
        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sung" { A B C D }
>>
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In this file (below) I have tried to follow your example using 
predefined expressions - not having the music etc explicitly in the 
score statement.
Everything works as expected until I started adding more unsung/sung 
sections when the subsequent words became shifted downwards at each 
appearance. Apparently LP is seeing them as new Verses(?). Is there a 
simple solution to allow each occurrence of words to be aligned, or must 
one use extra-offsets and trial and error to align them?

Note also that placing bar-checks in the music expressions gives strange 
values.

Regards,
Bill.

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\version "2.14.2"

wordsA = \lyricmode
        { Aa B C A }
wordsB = \lyricmode
        { C D E C }
wordsC = \lyricmode
        { E F G E }
        
unsungmelodyA = \relative c'' %Bar checks in this section give strange, 
varying values
        { a1 }
sungmelodyOne = \relative c''
        { a4 b c a }
unsungmelodyB = \relative c'
        { f1 }
sungmelodyTwo = \relative c'
        { c4 d e c }
unsungmelodyC = \relative c''
        { g1 }
sungmelodyThree = \relative c''
        { e,4 f g e }
        
\score {
\new Staff << {
\new Voice = "unsung"  { \unsungmelodyA }     
\new Voice = "sungA" { \sungmelodyOne }
\new Voice = "unsung" { \unsungmelodyB }
\new Voice = "sungB" { \sungmelodyTwo }
\new Voice = "unsung" { \unsungmelodyC }
\new Voice = "sungC" { \sungmelodyThree }
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto  "sungA" \wordsA
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "sungB" \wordsB
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "sungC" \wordsC
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        }

\layout { }