Lyric word spanning two notes (Stephen Torri)

[Gordon Gilbert]

Hi!

Your message:

I have a measure in 2/2 time which I have four quarter notes. Below it I
want to have lyrics where one word is sung in two parts in this measure.
So the notes and lyrics go in a pseudo code fashion would be:

a  b  c  d
si -- lience

The notes 'a' and 'b' are paired with 'si--' where 'c' and 'd' are
paired with 'lience'. So far I have the lyrics for this song as:

 %---------------------------
%   Lyrics
%---------------------------
words = \lyricmode { Let all mor -- tal | flesh keep | si -- lence, |
and with fear and }

I get an error message about my lyrics mode line because I believe its
expecting four words or syllables for measure #3. How do I tell lilypond
to be please let 'si' be one count in 2/2 time and 'lience' be for one
count?

Stephen

Which version are you using?  I have that song completely entered, and 
working just fine if you like.  Just email me, and I'll send it to you. 
My version is 2.7.20

Also, to make a syllable cover two notes, the easiest way is to put a slur 
over the notes, thus:

notes
{a b c( d) }

lyrics

{ One two three }

Will match just fine.

Also, using an _ in the lyrics will do the same thing for un-slurred 
notes.

Blessings,

Fr. Gordon Gilbert



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