Re: Lirics in repeated multi-voice bar

[Jogchum Reitsma]

Op 30-03-2022 om 04:42 schreef David Wright:

> On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 10:55:01 (-0600), Carl Sorensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 5:08 AM Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> >       
>       <...>
> The song has three (double-)verses, and the underlay is trivially
> different for the altos in verse one around measure 7, which might
> be a reason for setting it separately.
>
> (Three lines of German might also be difficult for some.)
>     
    Yes, I agree, although I don't think three German lines would pose a
    real problem to our (Dutch) choir
> However, the split bass at the end causes no problems at all: just
> add a new voice for one part, and let the lyrics carry through in
> the other (ie no change for them), eg:
>
>   fs1 fs4( gs) gs( fs)
>   cs\breve
>   < fs, cs' >\breve
>   << { \voiceTwo fs\breve ~ fs1 fs } \new Voice { \voiceOne cs'\breve ~ cs1 ds } >>
>   < gs, cs, >\breve
>

I'm not sure how to interpret this code. If I insert it on the pace at hand in my score, I get error messages saying "fs is not a note name", and so on. Or is the mail system distorting your message?

Deleting all the 's'-es (fs, gs, and so on) of course removes that error messages. But than I'm not sure why you are coding \breve notes here - Iḿ not surprised that inserting that in my code gives strange results... Besides that, the f's should be f-sharp, an the compiler complains about ties not being able to end.

As I see it, the high bass-line should read (after the half note rest)
g2 | f-sharp1(~ |  f-sharp4 e) e2 |

and the lower bass-line
g,2 | f-sharp2( b4 g-sharp | a2) a

The last bar is one voice again, <d d,>2 \fermata r2

See the "original", after which I coded the piece

But maybe I don't understand you correctly?

I think that what you mean by "just add a new voice for one part, and let the lyrics carry through in the other" is, at least for placing the lyrics, what I did in my answer to Carl's message (see my reaction to him above)

> (In case you wonder why there are two parts here, and not chords,
> it is of course because it's   \voiceOne cs'\breve cs1( ds)
> in the original score.)
>     
    No, I didn't wonder :-)
> Cheers,
> David.
>

many thanks, and regards, Jogchum