User talk:Gerda Arendt/Lilypond

First steps

Dan, i made my first steps in Lilypond. Is there a description of the coding? I'd like - in the GL 300 example - to make the first note in all three systems a dotted quarter, followed by an eighth.

Next step would be adding the text: Heiliger Herre Gott, heiliger starker Gott, heiliger unsterblicher Gott, erbarm dich über uns. The first syllable is for two quarters (with a slur), then almost all combinations of two eighth-notes are for one syllable, with the exception of the last such combination, where every eighth has a syllable. There will be a third voice in the same staff, - can I just add in the same style? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:11, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Help:Score has been pretty helpful to me (I am not super familiar with it either), and there is also some external documentation you can find if you Google something. Otherwise I mostly just try something and see how it looks in the Preview window. I have added the dotted quarter + eighth (check the history for what I did), happy to take a look at the lyrics. DanCherek (talk) 15:17, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Seen and understood the dots ;) - finally something easy! Thank you for your help. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:28, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

I love seeing melodies that reoccur in different compositions. The soloist's opening of Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff), for example, almost replicates the first two measures of the 2nd voice. DanCherek (talk) 16:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Interesting. This is from the German hymnal, which took it from an Orthodox liturgy. It also has text in Greek. It's the 3-times-holy (Trisagion), and we'll sing it on Sunday. Popule meus by Victoria has the same text, in both Greek and Latin, choirs alternating. - Would there be a way in the two-part setting to have the lower voice sound stronger? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Actually, what I called 2nd voice might be the lead, and the thirds above the sparkle on top, no? As the tenor had the leading voice in much of Renaissance choral music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:30, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

This page is probably the way to go for adjusting the playback dynamics, but I don't have too much experience with choral scoring in Lilypond. DanCherek (talk) 17:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Examples

For examples of lilypond in wikipedia: Search for Special:PagesWithProp/score (only 1000) Grimes2 (talk) 18:52, 1 April 2022 (UTC)