Two \partCombine pairs on one staff
The \partCombine function takes two music expressions, each containing a part, and distributes them among four Voice contexts named “one”, “two”, “solo”, and “shared”, depending on when and how the parts are merged into a common voice.
Variants of \partCombine are \partCombineUp and \partCombineDown to produce up-stem and down-stem merging of two voices, respectively. Combining them to squeeze four parts into a single staff, however, need some special setup, which this snippet defines accordingly.
\version "2.24"
customPartCombineUp =
#(define-music-function (part1 part2) (ly:music? ly:music?)
"Make an up-stem `VoiceBox` context that combines PART1 and PART2.
The context is called 'Up'; internally, the function calls
`\\partCombineUp`."
#{
\new VoiceBox = "Up" <<
\context Voice = "one" { \voiceOne }
\context Voice = "two" { \voiceThree }
\context Voice = "shared" { \voiceOne }
\context Voice = "solo" { \voiceOne }
\context NullVoice = "null" {}
\partCombine #part1 #part2
>>
#})
customPartCombineDown =
#(define-music-function (part3 part4) (ly:music? ly:music?)
"Make a down-stem `VoiceBox` context that combines PART3 and PART4.
The context is called 'Down'; internally, the function calls
`\\partCombineDown`."
#{
\new VoiceBox = "Down" <<
\set VoiceBox.soloText = #"Solo III"
\set VoiceBox.soloIIText = #"Solo IV"
\context Voice ="one" { \voiceFour }
\context Voice ="two" { \voiceTwo }
\context Voice ="shared" { \voiceFour }
\context Voice ="solo" { \voiceFour }
\context NullVoice = "null" {}
\partCombine #part3 #part4
>>
#})
soprano = { d'4 | cis' b e' d'8 cis' | cis'2 b }
alto = { fis4 | e8 fis gis ais b4 b | b ais fis2 }
tenor = { a8 b | cis' dis' e'4 b8 cis' d'4 | gis cis' dis'2 }
bass = { fis8 gis | a4 gis g fis | eis fis b,2 }
\new Staff <<
\key b\minor
\clef alto
\partial 4
\transpose b b' \customPartCombineUp \soprano \alto
\customPartCombineDown \tenor \bass
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\accepts "VoiceBox"
}
\context {
\name "VoiceBox"
\type "Engraver_group"
\defaultchild "Voice"
\accepts "Voice"
\accepts "NullVoice"
}
}