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Re: Lyrics for additional verses in LilyPond?
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Thomas Morley |
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Re: Lyrics for additional verses in LilyPond? |
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Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:11:11 +0100 |
2016-01-16 15:26 GMT+01:00 dumbledad <address@hidden>:
> Is there a way in LilyPond to simply list the lyrics corresponding to
> additional verses after the end of the music, with one paragraph per verse?
>
> N.B. This exact question has been asked before
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-music/2001-03/msg00089.html
This link isn't in use anymore, for a long time now.
Better check
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-01/index.html
Or read the manual ;)
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/stanzas#printing-stanzas-at-the-end
and next section.
Cheers,
Harm
> in 2001, but the first answer ("read this book") references a dead URL, while
> the second (use `\context Lyrics`) does not work for me, I get LilyPond
> syntax errors.
>
> Here's the song under which I want to write the additional verses.
>
> \header{
> title = "JOHN BALL"
> instrument = "(for unaccompanied voice)"
> composer = "Sydney Carter"
> copyright = "From \"In the Present Tense (Songs of Sydney Carter Book 5)\",
> Stainer and Bell 1982, ISBN 9780852495001"
> tagline = ""
> }
>
> \score {
> \relative {
> \time 2/4
> \clef treble
> \tempo 4=180
> \key a \major
> cis'' a8 fis | e4. cis8 | d e gis fis | e2 |
> fis4 fis8 fis | fis4 gis8 a | b a gis a | b cis d b |
> cis4 a8 fis | e4. cis8 | d e gis fis | e4 a8 gis |
> fis4 fis8 fis | d' cis b a | gis2 | a \bar "||"
> b4 b | b4. cis8 | b a gis fis | e2 | b'4 b8 cis | d( cis ) b a |
> cis2 | b4 e8 d | cis4 a8 fis | e4 cis | d8 e gis fis | e4 a8 gis |
> fis4 fis8 fis | d' cis b a | gis2 | a \bar "|."
> }
>
> \addlyrics {
> Who'll be the | la -- dy, | Who will be the | lord, | When we are |
> ruled by the | love of one an -- | o -- ther? Tell me, | Wholl be the |
> la -- dy, | Who will be the | lord, In the | light that is |
> com -- ing in the | morn -- | ing. |
> Sing, John | Ball, And | tell it to them | all: | Long live the |
> day that is | dawn -- | ing! And I'll | crow like a | cock, I'll |
> car -- ol like a | lark, For the | light that is | com -- ing In the |
> morn -- | ing.
> }
>
> \layout { }
> \midi { }
> }
>
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> I'd like to add verses 2, 3, and 4 underneath, separated from the music just
> as words, as they are here: http://imgur.com/pv7icqd
>
>
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