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Chapter 2: Tutorial 28<br />
2.3.5 Single staff polyphony<br />
Polyphonic music in lilypond, while not difficult, uses concepts that we haven’t discussed yet, so<br />
we’re not going to introduce them here. Instead, the following sections introduce these concepts<br />
and explain them thoroughly.<br />
See also<br />
Learning Manual: Section 3.2 [Voices contain music], page 44.<br />
Notation Reference: Section “Simultaneous notes” in Notation Reference.<br />
2.4 Songs<br />
This section introduces vocal music and simple song sheets.<br />
2.4.1 Setting simple songs<br />
Music Glossary: Section “lyrics” in Music Glossary.<br />
Here is the start of the melody to a nursery rhyme, Girls and boys come out to play:<br />
\relative c'' {<br />
\key g \major<br />
\time 6/8<br />
d4 b8 c4 a8 d4 b8 g4<br />
}<br />
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� 6 � � �<br />
8 � �<br />
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The lyrics can be set to these notes, combining both with the \addlyrics keyword. Lyrics<br />
are entered by separating each syllable with a space.<br />
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8 6<br />
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Girls and boys come out to play,<br />
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Note the curly brackets delimiting both the music and the lyrics, and the double angle<br />
brackets > around the whole piece to show that the music and lyrics are to occur at the<br />
same time.<br />
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