Re: Vocal music and beaming

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Marco Gusy <address@hidden>:

> Hi, I would like to hear what you think about lilypond and beaming in vocal
> music.
> I'm quite sure it's common in traditional engraving to beam together only
> notes of a melisma. The rule is: two syllabes never are beamed together. I
> attach a picture as an example. This is Bach Magnificat, the "Ma -- -- -- --
> " is beamed, but the "gni -- fi -- cat" isn't.
> When I code choral music with lilypond i fell like doing the same work twice
> (manual beam, and enter lyrics), maybe lilypond should beam following the
> text.

By default, LilyPond supports the opposite, namely that when you
use \lyricsto it interprets all manually inserted beams as melismas and
only attach one syllable to each beam.

  /Mats

> Can you check some Bärenreiter score?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marco