\version "2.12.0" \header{ texidoc= "Lyrics can be set to a melody automatically. Excess lyrics will be discarded. Lyrics will not be set over rests. You can have melismata either by setting a property melismaBusy, or by setting automaticMelismas (which will set melismas during slurs and ties). If you want a different order than first Music, then Lyrics, you must precook a chord of staves/lyrics and label those. Of course, the lyrics ignore any other rhythms in the piece." } \layout { ragged-right= ##t } m = \relative c'' { \autoBeamOff g8( a) r8 \times 2/3 { g'8( f e) } r8 \grace { d16[ c b] } e4 \textLengthOff d8.^"melisma" \melisma c16 \melismaEnd b } noise = \repeat unfold 6 \relative c'' { g16 g g g } textI = \lyricmode { la2 __ la -- la __ la la la la la } textII = \lyricmode { da -- da __ da -- da da da da da } << \context Staff = SA \noise \context Lyrics = LA { s1 } \context Staff = SB { s1 } \context Lyrics = LB { s1 } \context Staff = SC \noise \context Staff = SB \context Voice = "middle" \m \context Lyrics = LA \lyricsto "middle" \textI \context Lyrics = LB \lyricsto "middle" \textII >>