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4.4.1 Soprano and cello
Start off with the template that seems closest to what you want to end up with. Let’s say that you want to write something for soprano and cello. In this case, we would start with the ‘Notes and lyrics’ template (for the soprano part).
\version "2.25.20" melody = \relative { \clef "treble" \key c \major \time 4/4 a4 b c d } text = \lyricmode { Aaa Bee Cee Dee } \score { << \new Voice = "one" { \autoBeamOff \melody } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text >> \layout { } \midi { } }
Now we want to add a cello part. Let’s look at the ‘Notes only’ example:
\version "2.25.20" melody = \relative { \clef "treble" \key c \major \time 4/4 a4 b c d } \score { \new Staff \melody \layout { } \midi { } }
We don’t need two \version
commands. We’ll need the
melody
section. We don’t want two \score
sections
– if we had two \score
s, we’d get the two parts separately.
We want them together, as a duet. Within the \score
section, we don’t need two \layout
or \midi
.
If we simply cut and paste the melody
section, we would
end up with two melody
definitions. This would not generate
an error, but the second one would be used for both melodies.
So let’s rename them to make them distinct. We’ll call the
section for the soprano sopranoMusic
and the section for
the cello celloMusic
. While we’re doing this, let’s rename
text
to be sopranoLyrics
. Remember to rename both
instances of all these names – both the initial definition (the
melody = \relative { … }
part) and the name’s use (in the
\score
section).
While we’re doing this, let’s change the cello part’s staff – celli normally use bass clef. We’ll also give the cello some different notes.
\version "2.25.20" sopranoMusic = \relative { \clef "treble" \key c \major \time 4/4 a4 b c d } sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode { Aaa Bee Cee Dee } celloMusic = \relative { \clef "bass" \key c \major \time 4/4 d4 g fis8 e d4 } \score { << \new Voice = "one" { \autoBeamOff \sopranoMusic } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics >> \layout { } \midi { } }
This looks promising, but the cello part won’t appear in the
score – we haven’t used it in the \score
section. If we
want the cello part to appear under the soprano part, we need to add
\new Staff \celloMusic
underneath the soprano stuff. We also need to add <<
and
>>
around the music – that tells LilyPond that there’s
more than one thing (in this case, two Staves
) happening
at once. The \score
looks like this now:
\score { << << \new Voice = "one" { \autoBeamOff \sopranoMusic } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics >> \new Staff \celloMusic >> \layout { } \midi { } }
This looks a bit messy; the indentation is messed up now. That is easily fixed. Here’s the complete soprano and cello template.
sopranoMusic = \relative { \clef "treble" \key c \major \time 4/4 a4 b c d } sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode { Aaa Bee Cee Dee } celloMusic = \relative { \clef "bass" \key c \major \time 4/4 d4 g fis8 e d4 } \score { << << \new Voice = "one" { \autoBeamOff \sopranoMusic } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics >> \new Staff \celloMusic >> \layout { } \midi { } }
See also
The starting templates can be found in the ‘Templates’ appendix, see Single staff templates.
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