Re: Lyrics and polyphony

[James]

Hello,

On 4 January 2012 18:28, Benjamin Bruce <address@hidden> wrote:
> \version "2.12.2"
> {
>        <c' a>4 <e' c'> <g' e'> <b' g'> << { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } >>
> }
> \addlyrics {
>        Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear
> }
>
> Hello all!
> I have a question concerning lyrics and polyphony. I have looked through the
> Snippet Repository, but came up with nothing.
>
> The music I am typesetting is four-part harmony, and for the most part each 
> part
> has the same note durations, and entering them as chords makes sense. However,
> in a few places they differ, and while I have figured out how to make the 
> notes
> look correctly within angle brackets << >> (see above) the lyrics will not 
> stick
> to this part of the music (I guess because I made a new context). Is there a 
> way
> to have the lyrics work with this setup? Or perhaps is there an altogether
> different way I should go about this?
>

I don't know much about lyrics but I think this might be the place in the doc

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#divisi-lyrics

regards

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James