On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 11:07 Christopher R. Maden, <
address@hidden> wrote:
I’ve just released an album of sea chanteys (as threatened like a year
ago). I’m giving away a songbook with my arrangements — since I had to
make MIDI guide tracks for the recording anyway, why not?
I’m struggling, though, with how best to engrave them. There are 3 to 6
voices in each chorus, and putting them all on one staff is messy, but
making a proper ChoirStaff seems overkill.
I’d welcome any advice (especially since I think of this as a showcase
for LilyPond) — the album home page is <URL:
http://music.maden.org/index.php?title=Shower_Chanteys >, and each track
link goes to a page with links to the LilyPond source, PDF, and MIDI
output (for the first 11 tracks, so far).
Thanks in advance,
crism
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Chris Maden, text nerd
<URL: http://crism.maden.org/ >
Emperor Norton had the right idea.
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I would put two lines to a staff at most. If there are an odd number of voices, give the time a line of its own. It can be quite tricky to read the middle line of a bunch of three-note chords, and the ability to do that separates the elite second soprano from the rest.
Vaughan