Re: A Voice with Lyrics interspersed with non-lyric melody

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-10-04 7:32 am, Mike iLL Kilmer wrote:
> I want to be able to have
>
> * Voice with Lyrics
> * Just Melody
> * Voice with Lyrics again
>
> Where the lyrics can be a single lyricmode entity.
>
> I thought that this could be achieved with context, but this isn’t 
> working:
>
> [ . . . ]

Know that what you provided was not a complete minimal working example, 
as it did not show how you were assembling the variables into a \score.  
This leaves folks on the list having to guess the remainder, and it 
might be possible the error is not in the code that you show.  Also, a 
\version statement is crucial as we need to know which version you are 
using.  In the future, please ensure the MWE provide compiles on its 
own.

The issue you are facing is most likely that LilyPond is not able to 
keep the original "verse" context alive for the duration of the 
intervening notes.  Please review the following section [1] in the 
Notation Reference for more information.

[1]: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/keeping-contexts-alive.en.html

Here is an example of a few techniques that ensure a named Voice context 
remains alive:

%%%%
\version "2.19.83"

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff {
      \time 3/4
      \new Voice = "a" { a'2. }
      % Sequential:
      \new Voice = "b" { b'4 \new Voice { g'8[ 8] } b'4 }
      % Parallel:
      <<
        \new Voice = "c" { c''4 s c'' }
        \new Voice { s4 g'8 8 s }
      >>
      % Parallel within Sequential:
      {
        \new Voice = "d" { d''4 }
        <<
          \context Voice = "d" { s4 }
          \new Voice { g'8[ 8] }
        >>
        \context Voice = "d" { d''4 }
      }
      % Sequential within Parallel:
      <<
        \new Voice = "e" { s2. }
        {
          \context Voice = "e" { e''4 }
          \new Voice { g'8[ 8] }
          \context Voice = "e" { e''4 }
        }
      >>
    }
    \new Lyrics <<
      \lyricsto "a" { a }
      \lyricsto "b" { b b }
      \lyricsto "c" { c c }
      \lyricsto "d" { d d }
      \lyricsto "e" { e e }
    >>
  >>
}
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill