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Re: Organization of vocal scores
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Laura Conrad |
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Re: Organization of vocal scores |
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Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:49:19 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Benedict" == Benedict Singer <address@hidden> writes:
Benedict> My issue is that when I'm looking at the score to make
Benedict> corrections or tweaks, I mentally reference things
Benedict> based off the words. Lilypond, however, bases it off
Benedict> the notes, and so every time I want to change something
Benedict> I need to find the notes that the words are associated
Benedict> with. It gets worse when I need to do something in all
Benedict> 4 voice parts, as I need to find the same point in 4
Benedict> different note collections. I could put comments
Benedict> throughout the notes sections indicating where various
Benedict> points in the lyrics are in relation to the notes - is
Benedict> this the best/only way to link them?
I think the simplest answer to this is to use the point-and-click
interface. That way, no matter how you've structured your lilypond,
you click on a note or a word, and go to the spot in the lilypond file
where that note or word occurs.
I use this interface with Linux and emacs-22. I'll be happy to answer
any questions about how to set that up, but I'm not an expert in the
way it works for any other system. The documentation is a little
sketchy, probably because nobody else is expert in anything more than
setting up the system they actually use either.
For a number of practical and historical reasons, the way I actually
deal with the problem is by writing my vocal music in ABC, and using
abc2ly to turn it into lilypond.
In ABC, the words are associated with the notes:
X:1
T:Row, row, row your boat
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C
C3 C3 | C2 D E3 | E2 D E2 F | G6 |
w:Row row row your boat, gen- tly down the stream
c c c G G G | E E E C C C |
w: Mer- ri- ly, Mer- ri- ly, Mer- ri- ly Mer- ri- ly,
G2 F E2 D | C6 |]
w:Life is but a dream.
And whitespace is ignored, so it would be possible to make the
association visually even more compelling:
C3 C3 | C2 D E3 | E2 D E2 F | G6 |
w: Row row row your boat, gen- tly down the stream
This interfaces badly (or not at all) with using the point-and-click
interface, but I'm making progress on setting up a set of templates so
that I can just extract the notes and words from the abc2ly output
file and use a good lilypond structure. If anyone would find my
extractnotes.py python program useful, I'd be happy to post it.
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Laura (mailto:address@hidden , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
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