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Re: How do you handle lyrics for 2nd, 3rd, etc verses to a song?
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Arvid Grøtting |
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Re: How do you handle lyrics for 2nd, 3rd, etc verses to a song? |
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Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:27:21 +0200 |
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"James Moore" <address@hidden> writes:
> 1. Putting together some music for a choir I've just joined, and I'm having
> trouble figuring out where the lyrics for the 2nd, 3rd, etc verses go.
> Normally for songs I see music that just has the lyrics for the first verse
> next to the notes, and then the rest of the words written out in a block
> somewhere else on the page (This may be because normal to me ==
> traditional/folk music.) . How do you do those blocks? Is lilypond-book
> going to be required for this?
It's not traditional in choral music. In a word: Don't.
> 2. The lyrics seem to end up too close to the divider lines between bars in
> some cases. I'm thinking about bar 5, where "man-" ends up too close to the
> black line, and bar 6 for "night" does the same. Do I need to add space
> manually? Or is this the way people expect printed lyrics to look? (I'm
> really a fiddler and a piper, not a singer; this is my first experience with
> really caring about having to read the words.)
Or you could use ChoirStaff instead of StaffGroup.
--
Arvid