Re: When a song's composer and poet are the same person, why is the poet name initialized?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Karlin,

If the text and music are by the same person, I often just write "Lyrics and 
Music by" or "Text and Music by" or whatever seems appropriate to the material.

Hope that helps!
Kieren.

> On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Karlin High <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I have a friend who's a beginning songwriter and LilyPond user. After
> passing out his second song for review and comments, someone asked
> "How come you have your full name at the top right as composer, but
> only your initials at the top left as poet?"
> 
> Hmm. We both thought initials for composer-as-poet was standard, but
> now we see sheet music and songbooks go either way with this. Is there
> a reason for initializing the poet when it's the same as the composer?
> Maybe to make things look less redundant? Is it simply a matter of
> taste, or a well-established convention? I did a few web searches, but
> failed to find anything.
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