LilyPond beginnershandleiding: 3.4.1 Soprano and cello

### 3.4.1 Soprano and cello

Start off with the template that seems closest to what you want to end up with. Let’s say that you want to write something for soprano and cello. In this case, we would start with the ‘Notes and lyrics’ template (for the soprano part).

>     \version "2.22.2"

>     melody = \relative {
>       \clef "treble"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       a4 b c d
>     }

>     text = \lyricmode {
>       Aaa Bee Cee Dee
>     }

>     \score {
>       <<
>         \new Voice = "one" {
>           \autoBeamOff
>           \melody
>         }
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
>       >>
>       \layout { }
>       \midi { }
>     }

Now we want to add a cello part. Let’s look at the ‘Notes only’ example:

>     \version "2.22.2"

>     melody = \relative {
>       \clef "treble"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       a4 b c d
>     }

>     \score {
>       \new Staff \melody
>       \layout { }
>       \midi { }
>     }

We don’t need two `\version` commands. We’ll need the `melody` section. We don’t want two `\score` sections – if we had two `\score`s, we’d get the two parts separately. We want them together, as a duet. Within the `\score` section, we don’t need two `\layout` or `\midi`.

If we simply cut and paste the `melody` section, we would end up with two `melody` definitions. This would not generate an error, but the second one would be used for both melodies. So let’s rename them to make them distinct. We’ll call the section for the soprano `sopranoMusic` and the section for the cello `celloMusic`. While we’re doing this, let’s rename `text` to be `sopranoLyrics`. Remember to rename both instances of all these names – both the initial definition (the `melody = \relative c' {` part) and the name’s use (in the `\score` section).

While we’re doing this, let’s change the cello part’s staff – celli normally use bass clef. We’ll also give the cello some different notes.

>     \version "2.22.2"

>     sopranoMusic = \relative {
>       \clef "treble"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       a4 b c d
>     }

>     sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode {
>       Aaa Bee Cee Dee
>     }

>     celloMusic = \relative {
>       \clef "bass"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       d4 g fis8 e d4
>     }

>     \score {
>       <<
>         \new Voice = "one" {
>           \autoBeamOff
>           \sopranoMusic
>         }
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics
>       >>
>       \layout { }
>       \midi { }
>     }

This is looking promising, but the cello part won’t appear in the score – we haven’t used it in the `\score` section. If we want the cello part to appear under the soprano part, we need to add

>     \new Staff \celloMusic

underneath the soprano stuff. We also need to add `<<` and `>>` around the music – that tells LilyPond that there’s more than one thing (in this case, two `Staves`) happening at once. The `\score` looks like this now:

>     \score {
>       <<
>       <<
>         \new Voice = "one" {
>           \autoBeamOff
>           \sopranoMusic
>         }
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics
>       >>
>       \new Staff \celloMusic
>       >>
>       \layout { }
>       \midi { }
>     }

This looks a bit messy; the indentation is messed up now. That is easily fixed. Here’s the complete soprano and cello template.

>     sopranoMusic = \relative {
>       \clef "treble"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       a4 b c d
>     }

>     sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode {
>       Aaa Bee Cee Dee
>     }

>     celloMusic = \relative {
>       \clef "bass"
>       \key c \major
>       \time 4/4
>       d4 g fis8 e d4
>     }

>     \score {
>       <<
>         <<
>           \new Voice = "one" {
>             \autoBeamOff
>             \sopranoMusic
>           }
>           \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \sopranoLyrics
>         >>
>         \new Staff \celloMusic
>       >>
>       \layout { }
>       \midi { }
>     }

#### Zie ook

The starting templates can be found in the ‘Templates’ appendix, see Single staff templates.

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