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Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children
From: |
Matthew Collett |
Subject: |
Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:10:35 +1300 |
On 1/10/2012, at 3:29 pm, Michael Rivers wrote:
> Most beginning children's piano music uses a format with a single-line melody
> broken between the treble and bass clefs and lyrics written in between. I'm
> assuming LilyPond doesn't have a way to automatically attach some lyrics to
> the treble and some to the bass as needed, so I'm trying to do this
> manually.
You're assuming wrongly:
melody = \relative c' {
c2 c | g2 g | c e4 f | g1 |
}
text = \lyricmode {
Play pi -- a -- no all day _ long.
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = "up" { \new Voice = "melody" \key c \major \autochange \melody
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \text
\new Staff = "down" { \clef bass}
>>
}
The autochanger doesn't exactly match the layout you wanted: the third middle C
is notated in the left hand. For finer control you can make explicit staff
switches:
melody = \relative c' {
c2 c | \change Staff = "left" g2 g | \change Staff = "right" c e4 f | g1 |
}
text = \lyricmode {
Play pi -- a -- no all day _ long.
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = "right" { \new Voice = "melody" \melody }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \text
\new Staff = "left" { \clef bass s1*4 }
>>
}
Best wishes,
Matthew
- Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children,
Matthew Collett <=