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Music Glossary: lyrics.
Here is the start of the melody to a nursery rhyme, Girls and boys come out to play:
\relative c'' { \key g \major \time 6/8 d4 b8 c4 a8 d4 b8 g4 }
The lyrics can be set to these notes, combining both
with the \addlyrics
keyword. Lyrics are entered by
separating each syllable with a space.
<< \relative c'' { \key g \major \time 6/8 d4 b8 c4 a8 d4 b8 g4 } \addlyrics { Girls and boys come out to play, } >>
Note the curly brackets delimiting both the music and the lyrics,
and the double angle brackets << ... >>
around the
whole piece to show that the music and lyrics are to occur at the
same time.
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