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Mike:
Thank you very much for your helpful advice.
My problem is really how to code the final verse of my four-verse 'learning'
melody. I've diagrammed below how I think I'll have to code the melody,
but I'm wondering if there's a different, less complicated, way to go about
doing it.
\melody
%% ( for verses 1, 2, 3 only )
stanza1, stanza 2
\repeat volta 3
{ stanza 3, stanza 4 }
%% ( then continue notation for final verse 4
)
stanza 1, stanza 2 %%
(first two stanzas of verse 4 are played at same tempo as for verses 1, 2,
3 )
\repeat volta
{ \markup tempo =
"slower, sadly"
stanza
3, stanza 4
}
\alternative %% ( use for
the octave upbeat on final note of melody )
{ d'2~d2\fermata }
\bar " || "
In other words, it seems to me that I'll
have to code a volta for three verses, then another volta for the fourth verse,
with an alternate ending for the last notes of the final stanza.
Thank you again for taking the time to help
me.
Very best regards,
Ken
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: Repeat alternative includes
a tempo change
On May 5, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
I'm new to LilyPond (v2.12.3) and to music
notation in general, so I'm just a tad beyond the starting point on
LilyPond's learning curve. I'm scratching my head now as to how to
write the repeats in my learning testfile, "Podmoskovnye Vechera", (Moscow
Nights). The melody has four verses, each verse has two couplets
(i.e., four stanzas per verse), with the second couplet repeated in each of
the four verses. The repeats for the first three verses are
identical, but the repeat for the final verse includes a tempo change
(slower, sadly) with an octave upbeat at the end. I'm only coding the
melody line for now; here's the code I've been using (time =
2/4):
\bar "|:"
\repeat volta 4
%% notation shows repeat for verses 1, 2, 3, only
{
b4
cis4
e8
d8 a4~a8
e4
d8 \mbreak %%
\mbreak defined in my '%% Definitions' block
a'8.
g16 bes4~bes4
c8
bes8
a4
g8 f8
}
\alternative
%% notation shows repeat for verse 4
{
{a4
g8 f8 d2 }
{
d'2~d2\fermata }
}
\bar "||"
To get it right (volta showing verses 1 - 4,
alternative showing verse 4 only) will I need to code the final couplet
of verse 4 into \alternative? Or is there a better, more professional
way to do it?
Generally, alternative endings start on the first full measure during
which a repeated section diverges. It sounds like the solution would be
to back the beginning of the alternative up one measure so that the changed
upbeat can be part of the alternative.
Cheers,
MS
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