in Snippets - LilyPond

Vocal music 221
lyrics below
ossia above
Vertically centered common lyrics
6
In a vocal piece where there are several (two,four or more) lines of lyrics, and common lyrics for
all voices at some point, these common lyrics may be vertically centered regardingly, as shown
in the following example:
\include "english.ly"
leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces) \lookup #"brace240" }
rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
dropLyrics =
{
\override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -5)
\override LyricHyphen #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -5)
\override LyricExtender #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -5)
}
raiseLyrics =
{
\revert LyricText #'extra-offset
\revert LyricHyphen #'extra-offset
\revert LyricExtender #'extra-offset
}
skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 }
lyricsA = \lyricmode { The first verse has \dropLyrics the com -- mon
__ words \raiseLyrics used in all four. }
lyricsB = \lyricmode { In stan -- za two, \skipFour al -- so ap -- pear. }
lyricsC = \lyricmode { By the third verse, \skipFour are get -- ting dull. }
lyricsD = \lyricmode { Last stan -- za, and \skipFour get used once more. }
melody = \relative c' { c4 d e f g f e8( e f) d4 c e d c }
\score
{