Re: Aligning lyrics to non-visible melody

[Xavier Scheuer]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 08:50, Kuredant Kuredant <kuredant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Given the following example:
>

> (snip)

>
> I would like to hide the "melody" staff, while keeping the lyrics aligned to it (i.e. keep only "song" and "songLyrics" in \score).
> Is that possible? I've been looking through https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/vocal-music, but it seems that the melody staff is always displayed in the examples.

Hello,

Well, you can put your "melody" in a NullVoice, as explained in NR 2.1.2 Techniques specific to lyrics > Polyphony with shared lyrics

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics.html#polyphony-with-shared-lyrics

You might also want to use melismata and manually beamed notes, cf. NR 2.1.1 Common notation for vocal music > Multiple notes to one syllable

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music.html#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable

Which gives:

melody = \relative c'' {
  \time 3/4
  \autoBeamOff
  f4 g8[ f e f] |
  e2.
}

songLyrics = \lyricmode {
  Ky -- ri -- e __
}

song = \relative c' {
  \time 3/4
  c4 c c |
  c8 c c2 |
}

\score {
  \new StaffGroup <<
    \new Staff = "music" {

      <<

        \new Voice = "song" {

          \song

        }

        \new NullVoice = "melody" {

          \melody

        }

      >>

    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {

      \songLyrics

    }
  >>
  \layout {}
}

Cheers,

Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>