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Re: Combining voices in American Hymns
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Karlin High |
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Re: Combining voices in American Hymns |
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Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:21:27 +0000 |
On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote:
> Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and down) when
> the voices share a note? \partcombine does not appear to do this by default.
>
> American SATB hymns are typically engraved with the soprano and alto voices
> combined and the tenor and bass voices combined. If a note in the soprano
> voice has the same duration as the note in the alto voice, then the notes for
> soprano and alto will share a stem. If the durations are different, then
> there is no sharing. And if the notes are the same duration and the same
> pitch, then the note with have both an up stem and a down stem.
You're not alone with difficulties on American-style part combining.
Another LilyPond user shared some of her work with me, and I'm still
studying the approach she uses. Below is a small example I'm using for
experiments. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of LilyPond;
maybe someone will take one look and say, "That will mostly work, but
you will run into problems with such-and-such situations."
--
Karlin High
Missouri, USA
% BEGIN LILYPOND CODE
\version "2.18.2"
SopranoAltoUpMusic = \relative c {
<<
% Soprano notes
{
e' f g a b c d e
}
% Alto up-stem notes
{
c, d e f g s b c
}
>>
}
% Alto down-stem notes
AltoDownMusic = \relative c' {
s s s s s c' s s
}
\score {
\new Staff = "sopranoalto" <<
\new Voice = "soprano-alto-up" { \voiceOne \SopranoAltoUpMusic }
\new Voice = "alto-down" { \voiceTwo \AltoDownMusic }
>>
}
% END LILYPOND CODE
- Combining voices in American Hymns, David F ., 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, Noeck, 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, Urs Liska, 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, Phil Holmes, 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, Urs Liska, 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, David Wright, 2016/09/08
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, David F., 2016/09/13
- Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, David Wright, 2016/09/14
- New \partcombine in 2.19 Was: Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, David F., 2016/09/08
- Re: New \partcombine in 2.19 Was: Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, Phil Holmes, 2016/09/09
Re: Combining voices in American Hymns,
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Solved Re: Combining voices in American Hymns, David F., 2016/09/13