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Re: Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics
From: |
Trevor Daniels |
Subject: |
Re: Trouble with alternative melody and lyrics |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:01:51 +0100 |
Peter wrote Monday, April 27, 2015 8:25 AM
> I have a song with two verses. The lyrics to the second stanza occasionally
> have an extra syllable, such that there is a rest on that beat in the first
> verse but a note in the second verse. I'm trying to address this using the
> code found in notation manual (v. 2.18.2) in Section 2.1.3 "Stanzas",
> subsection "Switching to an alternative melody". See
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/stanzas#stanzas-with-different-rhythms.
> But I cannot get the lyrics to recognize and line up with the added beat in
> the second stanza. An example, as minimal as I was able to get it, follows
> below. Can anyone help? Also, is there a simpler approach that works for
> this, so I don't have to define a new alternative voice every time this
> situation occurs?
I'd use a simpler approach, like this (it's usually easiest to keep as many
notes as possible in the music associated with the lyrics, using skip or " " to
skip them as necessary):
\version "2.18.2"
melody_verse = \relative c' {
c4
<<
{ \once \voiceTwo f }
\new Voice { d'4\rest }
>>
g,4 a |
}
\score {
<<
\new Staff {
\new Voice = "main" {
\repeat volta 2 { \melody_verse }
}
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "main" {
One " " three four.
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "main" {
Uno dos tres quatro.
}
>>
}
Trevor