Re: Lyric in popular score

[Phil Holmes]



I'm not sure you're getting this right.  Singers sing words to the notes they have.  When there are notes with no words, what is the singer supposed to do?  i.e. when you have given the singer a skip, what do they sing?

 

I'm supposing that you are not properly separating the notes for the singers from the notes for the accompaniment.

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Phil Holmes

 

 

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From: Marcos Press

To: Simon Albrecht

Cc: address@hidden

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:56 PM

Subject: Re: Lyric in popular score

Thanks Simon!

The \skip was what I miss!

I'm not used to input lyrics :)

2015-09-01 23:17 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:

Hello Marcos,

first: welcome to the list!

actualy... I've been in the list for a couple of years ;)

But is always great to be welcome!!!! Thanks!

And thanks Lilypond for been a so great software and community!

 

Second: It almost always helps if you add a compilable, possibly tiny example <http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html> to your post – thus it will be easier a) to understand the problem and b) to give you a solution.
Third general remark: Are you familiar with the Learning Manual? <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/index.html> It’s a great resource for getting started with LilyPond and covers all the basics, also tutoring you on how to use the other manuals – so you shouldn’t miss studying that! It’ll be very rewarding.

But now to your question :-)

Am 01.09.2015 um 22:34 schrieb Marcos Press:

Dear list,

Iḿ trying to add the lyric of a folk song to a score.

How do I tell the lyric in wich measure to start?

There are two general ways to enter lyrics: 1) entering them with explicit durations and 2) automatically aligning them to a voice through \addlyrics or \lyricsto (or \set associatedVoice).

1) Use a skip of the required length to skip the first part of the music.
2) Repeat the skip as many times as there are notes to skip.

Example attached.

You’ll find that with the first method, the syllables are all left-aligned to the notes, at least if you use version 2.18.2 or earlier. This is a bug fixed only in the more recent development versions, so at least for the stable version you’re better off with \lyricsto.
In simple setups, \addlyrics may be used as well in place of \new Lyrics \lyricsto.

Can anyone point me where to look for an answer?

The Learning Manual has a section on lyrics: <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/songs>, but the answer to your question is hidden deep in the Notation reference, in <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#lyrics-and-repeats>.

Thanks in advance!

You’re welcome! HTH [Hope that helps].

Simon

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