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More stanzas

If you have multiple stanzas printed underneath each other, the vertical groups of syllables should be aligned around punctuation. LilyPond can do this if you tell it which lyric lines belong to which melody.

To this end, give the Voice context an identity, and set the LyricsVoice to a name starting with that identity followed by a dash. In the following example, the Voice identity is duet, and the identities of the LyricsVoices are duet-1 and duet-2.

\score {
\addlyrics
  \notes \relative c'' \context Voice = duet { \time 3/4
     g2 e4 a2 f4 g2.  }
  \lyrics \context Lyrics <
  \context LyricsVoice = "duet-1" {
    \property LyricsVoice . stanza = "Bert"
    Hi, my name is bert.    }
  \context LyricsVoice = "duet-2" {
    \property LyricsVoice . stanza = "Ernie"
    Ooooo, ch\'e -- ri, je t'aime. }
  >
}

You can add stanza numbers by setting LyricsVoice.Stanza (for the first system) and LyricsVoice.stz for the following systems. Notice how you must surround dots with spaces in \lyrics mode.

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