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A template for typesetting choir scores in Lilypond

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LilyPond is LaTeX for music. You write down the music in a text file, typeset it with LilyPond and the output is a pdf containing sheet music in a beautiful layout. They have very good tutorials at the web page, so head over there to learn more. I just wanted to put my template for choir scores here for future reference.

\version "2.16.0" 


\header {
   title = "Titel"
   composer = "Composer"
}

global = { 
   \key c \major 
   \time 4/4 
}


sopran = \relative c' {
   c4 d e f
   g1   
   \bar "|." 
} 

alt = \relative c' {
   c4 c c c
   c1
} 

tenor = \relative c {
   c4 d e f
   g1
}

bass = \relative c {
   c4 c c c
   c1
}


strophe = \lyricmode {
   Sing -- ing as a test!
} 


% == Part for pdf ==
\score {
<<
   \new ChoirStaff <<
      
      \new Staff  = "Frauen"<<
         \new Voice = "Sopran" { \voiceOne \global  \sopran }
         \new Voice = "Alt" { \voiceTwo \global  \alt }
         \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Sopran" \strophe 
      >>
      
      \new Staff = "Maenner"<<
         \clef bass
         \new Voice = "Tenor" {\voiceOne \global \tenor }
         \new Voice = "Bass" { \voiceTwo \global  \bass }
         \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Tenor" \strophe 
      >>

   >>
>>

\layout {
   indent = 0.0\cm
   \context {\Score 
   }
}

}


% == Part for midi ==
\score { \unfoldRepeats
<<
   \new ChoirStaff <<      
      \new Staff <<
         \new Voice = "Sopran" { \global  \sopran }
      >>
      \new Staff <<
         \new Voice = "Alt" { \global  \alt }
      >>
      \new Staff <<
         \new Voice = "Tenor" { \global  \tenor }
      >>
      \new Staff <<
         \new Voice = "Bass" { \global  \bass }
      >>
   >>
>>
\midi {
   \tempo 4=112
   \set Staff.midiInstrument = "voice oohs" 
}

}

The parts sopran, alt, tenor, bass contain the music for the respective voices. strophe contains the text.

The first score element is for creating the pdf – that’s what the layout part is for. We will have two parallel staves (lines) of music, one for the women voices with a treble clef, one for the men voices with a bass clef. The text will be typeset below each staff, distributed to the notes according to the voices of soprano and tenor.

The second score element is for creating the midi – hence the midi part. Here we separate the four voices into four staves, so that we can turn them on and off separately in a midi player. The unfoldRepeats command is necessary if your piece has voltas (repetitions). You need the command to get the midid to include the repetitions at the places you specify them. Otherwise it will just skip ahead to the next part which is usually not what you want.

That’s it, have fun!

Bibentry and duplicate identifiers

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I have previously written about listing your publications before the bibliography. This works fine, but there is one problem in combination with document-internal links: An anchor is created at the point where you insert the bibentry. This means that if you click on a citation in the text, you will skip to this location instead of the literature list in the end of the work. Also, you will get errors like this:

l.258 ...a and Blubb, 2014]{BlaBlubb2014}
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier 
(name{cite.BlaBlubb2014}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

The solution is pretty simple, wrap your bibentry-list in a NoHyper environment (HT J-P’s answer at stackexchange):

\begin{NoHyper}\bibentry{BlaBlubb2014}\end{NoHyper}