LilyPond 2.10.33 Hymn Template Instructions
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LilyPond
- Check out the LilyPond website, its tutorials, and such before you get too excited about this (you may want to learn the basics first). Nevertheless, a few of the basics are explained here. You'll need to install the program and get used to a text editor, the command prompt, and such too. I recommend SciTE as a text editor for LilyPond (User:Veramet can tell you how to configure it to compile and view the pdf, and play the midi from SciTE).
Comments
- Everything on a line after a percentage sign (%) is a comment.
- There is a lot of commented out code - uncommenting it will do different things to your music, unless the comment is there for documentation purposes.
Lyrics
Getting Lyrics to Show Up
- First of all, type out your lyrics
- i.e. the first verse would be at the end of the section that starts with sopWords = \lyricmode; the second verse lyrics go in the section entitled sopWordsTwo = \lyricmode, and so on.
- There are two things to uncomment, for each verse/stanza:
- %\context Lyrics = sopranos \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
- %\new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
What about different alto, tenor, and bass lyrics?
- Write your lyrics in the section for those parts (you may have to create them if you have many verses).
- Move the line that says %\new Lyrics = basses { s1 }, or such, to its proper position in the score: i.e. the bass section would go between 161 and 162 of your file.
