Lilypond Latin hymns
  • PLTT
    Posts: 149
    Does anyone know of a resource with the Lilypond code for Latin hymns, preferably in modern notation? Specifically, I'm looking for the Adoro Te and Tantum Ergo but I would need others in the future......
  • JonLaird
    Posts: 242
    I don't have those specifically, but here is code I dug up for "Where charity and love prevail," which could serve as a template for other plainsong hymns.

    % set version
    \version "2.12.3"

    % set paper to letter size
    \paper {
    #(set-paper-size "letter")
    indent = 0\in
    line-width = 5.5\in
    }

    % remove bar numbers
    \layout {
    \context {
    \Score
    \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
    }
    }

    % remove default tagline and add title to top
    \header {
    title = "Where Charity and Love Prevail"
    copyright = \markup { \column {
    \tiny \line { Text: CM; Ubi caritas, 9th cent.; tr. by Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997. }
    \tiny \line { Tune: CHRISTIAN LOVE; adapted by Paul Benoit, OSB, 1893-1979. }
    \tiny \line { Text and Tune copyright 1960, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Used with permission. }
    }}
    tagline = ##f
    }


    % set starting point and add music
    cantus = \relative c' {
    \key e \minor

    \cadenzaOn

    e8 e[ e] d[ e] g[ fis] e4 \bar "|"
    g8 a[ a] g[ a] b4 \bar "|"
    b8 b[ a] b[ g] a[ g] e4 r8 \bar "|"
    e8 g[ a] e[ d] e4

    \bar "|."
    }

    verseOne = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"1. "
    Where char -- i -- ty and love pre -- vail,
    There God is ev -- er found;
    Brought here to -- geth -- er by Christ's love,
    By love are we thus bound.
    }

    verseTwo = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"2. "
    With grate -- ful joy and ho -- ly fear
    God's char -- i -- ty we learn;
    Let us, with heart and mind and soul,
    Now love God in re -- turn.
    }

    verseThree = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"3. "
    For -- give we now each oth -- er's faults
    As we our faults con -- fess;
    And let us love each oth -- er well
    In Christ -- ian ho -- li -- ness.
    }

    verseFour = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"4. "
    Let strife a -- mong us be un -- known,
    Let all con -- ten -- tion cease;
    Be God's the glor -- y that we seek,
    Be ours God's ho -- ly peace.
    }

    verseFive = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"5. "
    Let us re -- call that in our midst
    Dwells God's be -- got -- ten Son;
    As mem -- bers of his bod -- y joined,
    We are in Christ made one.
    }

    verseSix = \lyricmode {
    \set stanza = #"6. "
    No race nore creed can love ex -- clude,
    If hon -- ored be God's name;
    Our fam -- i -- ly em -- brac -- es all
    Whose Fath -- er is the same.
    }

    \score {
    <<<br /> <<<br /> \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" }
    <<<br /> \new Voice = "melody" { \cantus }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseOne
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseTwo
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseThree
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseFour
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseFive
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseSix
    >>
    >>
    >>
    \layout { }
    }
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