: One staff with two sections and two voices In my piece, I want a single score in order to be able to output a single midi file. The entire piece is polyphonic with two voices. The structure should look like this: chorus

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One staff with two sections and two voices
In my piece, I want a single score in order to be able to output a single midi file.

The entire piece is polyphonic with two voices.

The structure should look like this:

chorus in two voices (with lyrics)
verses in two voices (with numbered lyrics)

I put together the structure below, but I don't want a piano staff or choir staff. I just want one staff, but to have the chorus separated from the verses. The chorus has one set of lyrics, the verses have another.

Now, I don't want to add the chorus lyrics to one of the verse lyrics and then use spacers as placeholders - because I am using a macro to number the verses lyrics.

version "2.19.80"
language "english"

%create new lyrics and add numbered lines
%creates: new Lyrics with { instrumentName = "8." shortInstrumentName = "8." }
lyricsWithVerseNumber =
#(define-music-function (parser location number music)(number? ly:music?) #{
new Lyrics with { instrumentName = #(string-append (number->string number) ".") shortInstrumentName = #(string-append (number->string number) ".") }
$music
#})

signature = {
key c minor
}
chorusUpper = relative c'' {
signature
g g g g
}
chorusLower = relative c' {
signature
e e e e
}
versesUpper = relative c'' {
signature
a a a a
}
versesLower = relative c' {
signature
f f f f
}

chorusLyrics = new Lyrics lyricsto "chorus" {
A song has words
}
wordsOne = new Lyrics lyricsWithVerseNumber 1 lyricsto "verses" {
More words for this
}
wordsTwo = new Lyrics lyricsWithVerseNumber 2 lyricsto "verses" {
Some words go here
}
wordsThree = new Lyrics lyricsWithVerseNumber 3 lyricsto "verses" {
Sing a bit more
}

score {
<<
time 4/4
new Voice = "chorus" {voiceOne chorusUpper }
new Voice { voiceTwo chorusLower }
chorusLyrics

new Staff {
new Voice = "verses" {voiceOne versesUpper }
new Voice { voiceTwo versesLower }
}
wordsOne
wordsTwo
wordsThree

>>
layout {
}

%midi { }
}

How can I get the chorus with it's verse to show above the verses with their lyrics in a single score? With this code here it tries to create a choir staff - three staves joined together.

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