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When preparing song sheets, it's sometimes useful to have the lyrics of all the verses inside the score, correctly lined up to the notes. However, this makes it easy for the singer to mix up verses -- especially when changing systems. A common solution is to alternate the display properties of the lyric lines. This snippet demonstrates how to use such an approach in LilyPond.

The eighth notes may be seemingly attached to different beams, and the corresponding notes connected by ties. Such a situation may occur, for example, in the cello suites.

Two alternative methods for bar numbering can be set, especially for when using repeated music.

Breve notes are also available with two vertical lines on each side of the notehead instead of one line and in baroque style.

Ambitus indicate pitch ranges for voices.

Accidentals only show up if they are not part of the key signature. AmbitusNoteHead grobs also have ledger lines.

By default, ambitus are positioned at the left of the clef. The \ambitusAfter function allows for changing this placement. Syntax is \ambitusAfter grob-interface (see Graphical Object Interfaces for a list of possible values for grob-interface.)

A common use case is printing the ambitus between key signature and time signature.

Adding the Ambitus_engraver to the Staff context creates a single ambitus per staff, even in the case of staves with multiple voices.

Brackets can be used in musical analysis to indicate the structure of the pieces.

As demonstrated in the second measure, such analysis brackets can be nested.

Simple horizontal analysis brackets are added below the staff by default. The following example shows a way to place them above the staff instead.

Text markup may be added to analysis brackets through the text property of the HorizontalBracketText grob. Adding different texts to brackets beginning at the same time requires the \tweak command.

Bracket text will be parenthesized after a line break.