Re: Extra staff in score with lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

A Lyrics context cannot be part of a Staff context.
I would propose to restructure your file into

soprano =  \relative { 
   f'2 << \context Voice = other { \voiceOne \tiny g c f,4 }
           { \voiceTwo \normalsize g,2 c f,4 } >> \oneVoice r4
}

lyric = \lyricmode { Al -- le -- lu -- ja. }

\score{
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff { \set Staff.instrument = "Violin" R1 R1 }
\new Staff { \set Staff.instrument = "Viola" R1 R1}
\new Staff { \set Staff.instrument = "Soprano" \context Voice = melody 
\soprano }
\lyricsto "melody" \new Lyrics {\lyric }
\new Staff { \set Staff.instrument = "Cello" R1 R1 }
>>
}

Note that I removed a number of unnecessary <<...>> and also that if
you do something like
\context Voice = melody { c1 | << \new Voice { b1 } { d1 } >> e1 }
then the d1 will still belong to the Voice context called melody, there's no
need to explicitly specify that again.

I usually prefer to define the full context structure directly within the
\score{...} block and not spread it out in different definitions (or even
different files), to make it easier to get an overview.

  /Mats


liang seng wrote:

> Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.17 to do a score with solo voice and 
> strings. Here
> is a small extract from the voice line (lyric.ly) :
>
> \version "2.7.17"
> lyric =
> \relative
> <<
>  \context Staff \context Voice = "melody" {
>     f'2 << \context Voice = other { \voiceOne \tiny g c f,4 } \context
> Voice=melody { \voiceTwo \normalsize g,2 c f,4 } >> \oneVoice r4
>  }
>
>  \lyricsto "melody" \new Lyrics { Al -- le -- lu -- ja. }
>
> > >
>
> And here is the full score (score.ly):
>
> \version "2.7.17"
> \include "lyric.ly"
> \score {
> <<
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff << { \set Staff.instrument = "Violin" R1 R1 } >>
> \new Staff << { \set Staff.instrument = "Viola" R1 R1} >>
> \new Staff << { \set Staff.instrument = "Soprano" \lyric } >>
> \new Staff << { \set Staff.instrument = "Cello" R1 R1 } >> >> >>
> }
>
> For the sake of simplicity, all the staves except the soprano staff 
> contain only rests.
> Here, when I compile score.ly, the output look good except for one 
> thing. The
> soprano staff is at the correct position (3rd staff from the top). 
> However, the
> lyrics, which are supposed to be below the soprano staff, are at the 
> bottom of
> the score, below the last (cello) staff. Why is this? How can I 
> rectify this?
> Another interesting thing is, when I replace \context Staff with \new 
> Staff in
> lyric.ly, the full score has an extra staff above the soprano staff, 
> but the
> staff has no notes or rests, only a clef. Again, why does this happen?
> Thank you.
> Seng Liang.
>
>
>
>
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