Re: Line in lyrics to show half or full note

[Trevor Daniels]



Jay,

 

Doing this would not be standard notation, so LilyPond

does not provide a straight-forward way to achieve it.

 

At one time it was quite common to tie the note to a

quaver (8th note) in the following bar, with a lyric 

extender, to show the note needed to be sung for the

full duration, but this seems to have fallen out of

practice these days.

 

Trevor

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Jay Vara

To: lilypond-user

Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 4:41 PM

Subject: Line in lyrics to show half or full note

When a lyric syllable corresponds to several notes, it is easy to get a line extending under all the notes concerned. When a lyric syllable corresponds to a single full note (or dotted full or a half note) I would like to see a line the extends from the lyric till the completion of the current note. Here is an example:

%%%%%%%%%

\version "2.18.2"

<<

\new Voice = melody {

\relative c' {c4 d e f g1}}

\new Lyrics \lyricsto melody { cee dee eee ef gee}

>>

%%%%%%%%%

This is what it produces:

 

This is what I would like to see with a line showing that the lyric gee extends to the end of the measure:

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