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choral voice part splitting
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
choral voice part splitting |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:37:14 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> I am just learning Lilypond, and am having trouble understanding how to
> notate
> a style which is common in choral music.
> I am entering a composition for SATB voices, so I am creating a sopranoMusic,
> altoMusic, tenorMusic, and bassMusic section, and will use partcombine to
> place the two female parts in the treble staff, etc.
>
> My current problem is that occasionally one of the voice parts will split,
> e.g. the soprano part will split to independent soprano 1 and soprano 2
> parts, but only for a few note, then back to a single soprano line.
> Since the parts split so infrequently, it does not seem the best approach to
> enter the notes as if it were an eight voice composition.
The example morgenlied (input/mutopia/F.Schubert) has an example of
this in the first system.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen