Re: Lyrics on beamed notes not correctly converted by musicxml2ly

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, um 16:49:08 schrieb Hans Aikema:
> On 19-2-2011 16:24, Hans Aikema wrote:
> > When the MusicXML input contains beamed fast notes (8th, 16th etc) the
> > lyrics accompanying each note after the first of the beamed notes is not
> > imported into the lilypond file.
> 
> As a follow-up: This might be related to lilypond interpreting manual
> beams different from autobeams when it comes to placing lyrics. I had to
> remove the manual beams from the converted file to have the lyric
> 'three' appear on the second note in the converted file.

Yes, the reason is that lilypond treats beams as melismas (which is the usual 
convention in classical scores; only in modern scores you'll find lyrics on 
beamed notes!), so there cannot be any lyrics on the subsequent notes. Thus, 
musicxml2ly ignores those syllables. If you want lyrics on those notes, you 
have to ignore beamining, which can be done with the --no-beaming command line 
option to musicxml2ly:

musicxml2ly --no-beaming lyrics-melisma.xml

Cheers,
Reinhold

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