Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

[James Bailey]

On 01.03.2010, at 14:28, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:03:02PM +0100, James Bailey wrote:
> > On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the
> > > second example from
> > > the bottom in LM 3.2.3 Voices and vocals ?
> >
> > Yes and no. Yes, the judas maccabeus example does exactly what's
> > discussed here, single-staff polyphony with lyrics, but it's not  
> > really
> > clear that single-staff polyphony is at work here, and definitely  
> > doesn't
> > show the usage of a short section of single staff polyphony. If  
> > need be,
> > I can whip something super-simple up.
>
> Sorry, I'm not following this at all.  Please make up an example,
> and explain why it's different/better than the current thing.
>
> Note that I never use polyphony or lyrics, and have a fever, so
> I'll either need a very simple explanation or have another
> developer take over this discussion from me.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
This is basically what confuses people. No, it's not any different  
than what's explained elsewhere, it's just that it's not explained  
all together. All of the consituent pieces are explained, but nowhere  
is really explained that this is how to have a short section of  
polyphony when lyrics are present. I think we can leave the LSR  
examples if lyrics need to be placed above the staff (for a descant,  
or some such).

\version "2.12.3"

vocals = \relative {
   c4 d e f
   <<
      {
         \voiceOne
         g2 g
      }\new Voice {
         \voiceTwo
         f4( e) e( d)
      }
   >> \oneVoice
   c1
}

textAll = \lyricmode { This is some text that goes here }

\score {
   <<
      \new Staff \new Voice = vocals \vocals
      \new Lyrics \lyricsto vocals \textAll
   >>
}