On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 9:54 AM H. S. Teoh via LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
> With my very limited knowledge of music theory, I don't know what term(s)
> to search for.
> I have a piece of music that starts with eight measures of piano, before
> the vocal part comes in. So, it only shows the treble and bass clef staves
> for eight measures, and then adds another staff when the vocals start.
Usually that's called an introduction? "Prelude" literally would mean
the same thing, except that "prelude" is usually used to mean a
standalone extended movement meant to introduce a larger work -- 8 bars
would be a little short for that.
Yeah, I tried using "introduction" as one of my search terms originally, but given how often the word is used, I got too many irrelevant hits.
> I'm guessing that once I know what it's called I can read up on it
> in the documentation and / or find a good example of how to code
> that in LilyPond.
> (I thought perhaps I could "cheat" and use something like lots of
> "s1" followed by a "\break" and it might hide that portion of the
> vocals because nothing's happening, but it didn't work and I
> suspect that's not the right way to think about it anyway.)
> Thanks.
You could create a new vocal staff start 8 bars into the music; that
would have the intended effect, I think.
This is exactly what I want to do, but since I didn't know how, I tried searching for "introduction", "solo", "prelude", etc. and not finding what I was looking for.
After my initial question, I found this:
which seems to be solving the problem in a different way.
But your answer makes more sense to me and is what I really want to go with. (The introduction starts with a "\partial" and ends with an incomplete measure also. Then, when the vocals start it's another "\partial".) I just have no idea what the syntax for starting a new staff "late" is.
I searched for "introduction" but get too many hits.
T
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