On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:04 AM, BGM [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:
My hymn has a key signature of B Major, so I have to manually sharp all the naturals in the code.
On this one syllable - the "cha-" in Eucharist, I need to have the beamed 8th notes span for one syllable, and both be sharped AND still keep the slur line.
How do I do that?
melody = \relative c' {
\global
\partial 8
fis8 b4 ais8[ gis] fis2 dis8[ e] dis8([ c]) b4. b8 e4 ...
}
wordsOne = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = "1. "
We Cru- sa- ders of the Eu- cha-_ rist,
With joy we _ con- se- crate to Your Heart ...
}![]()
It looks like you've got everything except the c-sharp, no? The d-sharp/c are beamed and slurred together. Or, do you mean like you've done with the "sa-" on Cru- sa- ders, where each syllable gets the note instead of "cha-" getting both eighth notes? If that's what you want, then you can just use a phrasing slur instead of a slur:
dis8[ \( cis] \)
LilyPond ignores phrasing slurs when aligning lyrics. I'd advise against this notation practice, though, since you usually only slur two sung notes together when a single syllable is sung on both notes. If it needs to be there for another verse, or an accompanying instrument, then I'd consider making it a dashed line so the singer knows the lyrics aren't supposed to be slurred. Slurring notes together for lyrics is called a "melisma", by the way :-)
- Abraham