Re: Lyrics Problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-02/msg00006.html

  /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> Hello!
> First of all thanks for your help. I already looked at that section of 
> the manual, but somehow I didn't got it to work. With your help it now 
> compiles without errors and warnings, but there is one thing I want to 
> change:
> Now the lyrics are beneath the staffs, but I want them to be above 
> (because they belong to the first trumpet). If I try something like:
>
> \new PianoStaff <<
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto trumpetI \text
>     \new Staff {
>         \clef treble \key f \major
>         << \new Voice = trumpetI { \voiceOne \trumpetone } \\ 
> \trumpettwo >>
>     }
>     \new Staff {
>         \clef bass \key f \major
>         << \tromboneone \\ \trombonetwo >>
>     }
> >>
>
> I get the error that Voice trumpetI is not known. That's because the 
> voice is declared after \new Lyrics ... - Any idea how to solve this?
>
> Greets
> Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:44:44 +0100
> Subject: Re: Lyrics Problem
> From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> To: 9-bert <address@hidden>
>
> Basically, what you have to do is to provide a name to the corresponding
> voice of music and then refer to that with \lyricsto, see the sections on
> lyrics in the manual. In your example, it would look something like
>
> mylyrics = \lyricmode{ Hi, here's some ly -- rics }
>
> \score{
> <<
>  \new PianoStaff <<
>    \new Staff {
>       \clef treble \key f \major
>       << \new Voice = trumpetI {\voiceOne \trumpetone} \\ \trumpettwo >>
>    }
>     \new Staff {
>       \clef bass \key f \major
>       << \tromboneone \\ \trombonetwo >>
>    }
>  >>
>  \new Lyrics \lyricsto trumpetI \myLyrics
> >>
> }
>
>   /Mats 
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