Bibliographic information is entered in a separate block, the
\header
block. The name of the piece, its composer, etc. are
entered as an assignment, within \header { ... }
. For
example,
\header { title = "Eight miniatures" composer = "Igor Stravinsky" tagline = "small is beautiful" } \score { ... }
When the file is processed by the lilypond
wrapper script, then
the title and composer specified are printed above the music. The
`tagline' is a short line printed at bottom of the last page, which
normally says "Engraved by LilyPond, version ...". In the
example above, it is replaced by the line "small is
beautiful."1
Normally, the \header
is put at the top of the file. However,
for a document that contains multiple pieces (e.g. an etude book, or
an orchestral part with multiple movements), then the header can be
put into the \score
block as follows; in this case, the name of
each piece will be printed before each movement:
\header { title = "Eight miniatures" composer = "Igor Stravinsky" tagline = "small is beautiful" } \score { ... \header { piece = "Adagio" } } \score { ... \header { piece = "Menuetto" } }
More information on titling can be found in Invoking lilypond.
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).