Re: Complicated duration

[Trevor Daniels]

Christopher Culver wrote Monday, June 06, 2011 4:14 PM


> I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics 
> to the
> melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable 
> lasts for
> a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the 
> following
> tuplet:
>
> \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] }
>
> What is the Lilypond expression of the entire duration that I must 
> write after
> the lyric?

Would it not be easier to indicate the start and
end of the melisma with \melisma and \melismaEnd
in the melody?

Trevor