PrintMusic defines a syllable as any letters separated by a space or a hyphen. When you put the lyrics into the score, PrintMusic places the syllable in your score, centers the hyphen between notes, and moves any syllable correspondingly if its notehead moves.
If you make a mistake, just backspace over it by pressing
If you encounter a melismatic passage, where one syllable is sustained through several melody notes, press SPACEBAR for each note of the melisma; the cursor will skip ahead to the next note.
Important: When you enter lyrics using this method, pay special attention when entering additional lyric lines, one beneath another. To add a new lyric line, be sure to change verses before typing in each new line. Otherwise, PrintMusic will believe that all the lyrics, even successive lines, are all part of the same “verse,” and unexpected results may occur.
Tip: If you want a quick MIDI audio check of the notes you’re attaching lyrics to, hold down
This will set the default font for lyrics you are about to enter. It will also change the font for lyrics already entered in the score.
Note that this method of deleting a syllable doesn’t pull the following syllables one note to the left; it allows you simply to remove a selected syllable, leaving all other syllables where they are.
When a syllable’s note is tied over to another note or sustained through several notes (as in a melisma), a common practice is to draw an underline following the syllable to indicate its extension.
As you enter lyrics, word extensions are defined automatically where appropriate. While using Type Into Score, they do not appear immediately; only after switching out of Type Into Score mode, or changing tools, do the word extensions appear. These underlines are called Smart Word Extensions because they expand and contract along with the music as you enter additional lyrics and modify the page layout. They can also automatically extend over a system breaks.
A Smart Word Extension underline will extend to the next syllable of the same lyric type and number regardless of the baseline difference of the individual syllables. A word extension underline will extend to any syllable provided it lies on the exact same vertical baseline as the previous syllable. Word extensions do not terminate at the start point of the next syllable if it is of the same type, but a different number (verse 1, verse 2) regardless of the next syllable’s baseline position.
After word extensions appear in the score, each can be edited manually.
This will set the default font for lyrics you are about to enter. It will also change the font for lyrics already entered in the score.
PrintMusic User Manual Home
|