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Here is an example that shows some techniques you might use when
writing chant.
1: 1a;
lyrics 1: "This<^ is an example of one way>";
bar
1: d;e;2f;
lyrics 1: "to do chant.";
bar
1: 1f;
lyrics 1: "when<^ there are many words for a>";
bar
1: d;f;2;
lyrics 1: "sin-gle note.";
dblbar
newscore
// Note use of 'n' to not print the time signature
score time=7/4n
music
1: a;;;b;g;2a;
lyrics 1: "When there are man-y notes,";
bar
score time=8/4n
music
1: d;e;f;e;f;8e;;2;
lyrics 1: "You might change the time sig-na-ture";
bar
score time=5/4n
music
1: a;e;;2d;
lyrics 1: "on ev-ery bar,";
bar
score time=7/4n
music
1: e;f;e;d;c;2d;
lyrics 1: "to match the syl-la-bles.";
dblbar
newscore
score time=8/4n
music
// Note use of 'n' to not print tuplet number/bracket
1: {d;e;f;g;e;2d;;}10n,1/2;
lyrics 1: "You can al-so use tup-lets,";
invisbar
1: {f;g;e;2d;e;2.d;}9n,1/2;
lyrics 1: "A-long with in-vis-bars.";
dblbar
newscore
score stemlen=0
music
1: d+;c+;b;g;2a;;
lyrics 1: "Set stem-len to ze-ro,";
invisbar
1: {f;2e;4d;c;1d;}9n,1/2;
lyrics 1: "to get stem-less notes.";
endbar
