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#707 Enhancement: Create an invisible Voice to assist Lyric alignment.

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2014-06-29
2008-11-04
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Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: v.villenave

A while ago, Erik Sandberg proposed to use the DevNull context to align
lyrics to an invisible voice:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-05/msg00379.html

As illustrated in Issue 248 and Issue 247, however, this trick has
downsides and therefore is no longer recommended.

This led Mats to request a feature that would somehow make it "possible to
place the lyrics according to a Voice that's not typeset."

"Erik's proposal was a response to such a request to be able to typeset the
lyrics of a song over a guitar accompaniment, without typesetting the song
itself. If you ever played a Bach cantata, you know that the same principle
often is used in the instrumental parts for the arias and recitatives,
where the lyrics is typeset on top of the instrumental part to make it
simpler to follow, but the where it would require too much space to also
typeset the full song part."

It is also very much used in modern operas/musicals (Bernstein and others).

Discussion

  • Google Importer

    Google Importer - 2008-12-19

    Originally posted by: paconet....@gmail.com

    If implemented, this also will ease very much the aligning of several slightly
    different lyrics to one melody, aided with the commonly used parenthesized notes or
    dashed slurs. We could use two invisible melodies for aligning, and a third, visible
    one for actual printing. This will give complete freedom of lyrics with little effort.

    Important: the alignment of syllables to notes should behave exactly the same as it
    currently does with regular voices/lyrics.

     

  • Google Importer

    Google Importer - 2011-09-16

    Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com

    (No comment was entered for this change.)

    Summary: Enhancement: Create an invisible Voice to assist Lyric alignment.
    Owner: ---
    Labels: -Priority-Medium

     

  • Google Importer

    Google Importer - 2014-06-22

    Originally posted by: janek.li...@gmail.com

    Also note that the patch for issue 3254 will fix some problems that were appearing when using DevNull context for aligning lyrics (cf. issue 247 and issue 104).

     

  • Google Importer

    Google Importer - 2014-06-29

    Originally posted by: PhilEHol...@googlemail.com

    (No comment was entered for this change.)

    Status: Verified