LilyPond Internals Reference: 1.1.40 LyricEvent

### 1.1.40 LyricEvent

A lyric syllable. Must be entered in lyrics mode, i.e., `\lyrics { twinkle4 twinkle4 }` .

Event classes: lyric-event, music-event, rhythmic-event and StreamEvent.

Accepted by: Lyric_engraver and Lyric_performer.

Properties:

> `iterator-ctor` (procedure):

>   `ly:rhythmic-music-iterator::constructor`

>   Function to construct a `music-event-iterator` object for this music.

> `name` (symbol):

>   `'LyricEvent`

>   Name of this music object.

> `types` (list):

>       '(rhythmic-event lyric-event event)

>   The types of this music object; determines by what engraver this music expression is processed.

#### Internals Reference v2.22.2 (stable-branch).