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Staff notation 113
High I + II
Low
H I
H II
L
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Adding orchestral cues to a vocal score
This shows one approach to simplify adding many orchestral cues to the piano reduction in a
vocal score. The music function \cueWhile takes four arguments: the music from which the
cue is to be taken, as defined by \addQuote, the name to be inserted before the cue notes, then
either #UP or #DOWN to specify either \voiceOne with the name above the staff or \voiceTwo
with the name below the staff, and finally the piano music in parallel with which the cue notes
are to appear. The name of the cued instrument is positioned to the left of the cued notes.
Many passages can be cued, but they cannot overlap each other in time.
cueWhile =
#(define-music-function
(parser location instrument name dir music)
(string? string? ly:dir? ly:music?)
#{
\cueDuring $instrument #dir {
\once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT
\once \override TextScript #'direction = $dir
-\markup { \tiny #name }
$music
}
#})
flute = \relative c'' {
\transposition c'
s4 s4 e g
}
\addQuote "flute" { \flute }
clarinet = \relative c' {
\transposition bes
fis4 d d c
}
\addQuote "clarinet" { \clarinet }
singer = \relative c'' { c4. g8 g4 bes4 }
words = \lyricmode { here's the lyr -- ics }