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Lyrics for additional verses in LilyPond?

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Is there a way in LilyPond to simply list the lyrics corresponding to additional verses after the end of the music, with one paragraph per verse?

(N.B. This exact question has been asked before, in 2001, but the first answer ("read this book") references a dead URL, while the second (use \context Lyrics) does not work for me, I get LilyPond syntax errors.)

Here's a song under which I want to write the additional verses.

\header{
  title = "Hello World"
}

\score {
  \relative {
    \time 2/4
    \clef treble
    \key a \major
    cis''2 | a4 fis \bar "|."
  }
  \addlyrics { 
    He -- | llo world
  }
  \layout { }
  \midi { }
}

\version "2.18.2"

(Sorry about the syntax highlighting, <!-- language: lang-lilypond --> is not yet supported in the Google Code Prettyfier that SO uses.)

I'd like to add verses 2, 3, and 4 underneath, separated from the music, just as words.

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dumbledad Avatar asked Jan 16 '16 13:01

dumbledad


1 Answers

I got an answer from Knute Snortum on the LiliyPond mailing list here

After my score block I can add a markup block like this

\markup {
    \column {
        \line { \null }
        \line { 2. Here I go }
    }
}

It turns out that this is covered in the LilyPond documentation (printing stanzas at the end) but they use the term 'stanza' and so my searching for 'verse' did not lead me there.

(It is also worth noting this discussion on meta. Posting LilyPond questions here is likely to lead to down-votes since it is not considered programming by many of the SO community. A better Stack Exchange site to post LilyPond questions to is the Music: Practice and Theory Stack Exchange, though, as I found, the LilyPond mailing list is currently the place most likely to elicit full and prompt answers.)

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dumbledad Avatar answered Dec 20 '22 18:12

dumbledad