Re: ossia and adding a label

[Mats Bengtsson]

You don't provide a full example, so I don't really know how long
the intro is before you start the ostinato, but my guess is that
it may be a good idea to add a \break before it, so the ostinato
starts on a new score line. In that case, you can simply set
Staff.instr = "ostinato" to get an label on the new stave.
If you want it to start in the middle of a score line, you could
use the same setting and try to fiddle with
\override InstrumentName #'break-visibility = #all-visible
but then you will get it printed at each bar line. I didn't manage
to do the setting so it only applies ones.

   /Mats

Sterling Sympatico wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have figured out how to set up my two-part choral score to include an
> ostinato line in the middle for a few bars.  This is a percussive piece
> (no melody).
>
> I set:
>
> Ostinato = \drummode {
>          \repeat "unfold" 4 {some percussion}
>          }
>
> groupOne = \drummode {
> 	 \override Score.BarNumber #'padding = #2 
> 	 \set Staff.instrument = " Group One "
>          bd sn etc..
>          }
>
> groupTwo = \drummode {
>          \set Staff.instrument = " Group Two "
>          bd sn etc..
>          <<
>                 { sn bd r4 sn | etc... }
>                 \context DrumStaff =
>                 Ostinato  { << \global \Ostinato >> }
>         >>
>         bd sn more groupTwo stuff
>         }
>
> \score { \context ChoirStaff <<
>        \context DrumStaff =
>        groupOne { << \global \groupOne >> }
>        \context DrumStaff = 
>        groupTwo { << \global \groupTwo >> }
>        >>
> }
>
>
> So, all works - I even padded my barnumbers up so they wouldn't clash
> with the ChoirStaff.  I can't seem to get the Ostinato line to have
> "Ostinato" appear before it as I had "Group One" and "Group Two" appear
> before their repective staves.  Is this even possible?  I tried
> inserting the appropriate command at different places in the cile but to
> no avail.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sterling MacNay
>
>
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