How to move lyric word left/right towards unattached note
Hello everyone
I added lyrics to a piece of music by attaching the lyrics to the soprano part. However, in some cases, it would look better if a word is under the alto note instead of the soprano note. For example:
I would prefer this instead:
I can accomplish that visually by simply omitting that word from voice 1 and then adding that word (and only that word) to voice 2, but I suspect that it is generally not a good idea to split text between voice 1 and voice 2 if both voices sing it. I can move the words left and right, but when I do that, the notes also move and I can never quite get the word under the note that I want.
How can I solve this?
Thanks
Samuel (new user)
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Comments
Exactly how you proposed.
Also you seem to enter the lyrics dash as ctrl+dash, why?
In reply to Exactly how you proposed… by Jojo-Schmitz
I use Ctrl + hyphen because it's easier to edit mistakes that way. If I use just the hyphen, and I want to edit/delete text, then I also have to delete the text in the two adjacent "words" to make the hyphen disappear.
In reply to I use Ctrl + hyphen because… by ugcheleuce
I am not understanding the problem you are perceiving with hyphens. To remove a hyphen between syllables, simply press space after editing the first. Hyphens are also remove.automarically.of either syllable is removed. Ctrl+space produces wrong results with respect to alignment and other aspects of layout as well as export and should not be used as a substitute for ordinary hyphens.
Another way to hack it (but also cumbersome) is to convert the quarter-and-an-eighth note to a quarter note and an eight note, add a tie, make them invisible, and then add a quarter-and-an-eighth note using voice 3 (set to "not play). In MuseScore it looks like this but the voice 3 note sitting behind the voice 1 note become visible when printed:
Changing some lyrics to voice 2 doesn't affect anything but the layout. When I've run across this in the past that is exactly what I have done.