Help:Editing songs
A song page can contain any information about the song. The following layout is recommended:
- Infobox
- Lyrics
- Tune
- Vocals
- Sol-fa song sheet
- Category
Contents
Infobox
The musical composition infobox is recommended.
{{Infobox musical composition
| name =
| translation =
| composer =
| text =
| genre =
| language =
| meter =
}}
- name
- Song title
- translation
- Song title in English if language is not English
- composer
- Name of the composer
- text
- by name of the poet
- genre
- Genre
- language
- Language
- meter
- Meter
Infobox example
{{Infobox musical composition
| name = Fa hεn Sie
| translation = Keep Us Safe
| composer =
| text =
| genre =
| language = Akan
| meter = 8.8.D
}}
Script error
Lyrics
Include the lyrics of the song enclosed in the poem tag. The poem tag preserves line breaks.
Lyrics Example
== Lyrics == <poem> Fa hεn sie, Agya fa hεn sie Fa hεn sie W'ataban n'ase </poem>
Tune
On wikichorus, multiple versions of a song are allowed. When editing, consider adding a version in stead of changing an existing one. Each version of the song gets a section. The version section contains the vocals and song sheet for the song.
Vocals
The listen template is recommended for embedding vocals
sound files.
{{listen
| filename =
| title =
| description =
}}
Vocals Example
{{listen
| filename = Fa hεn sie 1.mp3
| title = Fa hεn sie version 1 vocals
| description = Four part harmony of fa hεn sie version 1
| filename2 = Fa hεn sie 1 soprano.mp3
| title2 = Fa hεn sie 1 soprano
| description2 = Soprano vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename3 = Fa hεn sie 1 alto.mp3
| title3 = Fa hεn sie 1 alto
| description3 = Alto vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename4 = Fa hεn sie 1 tenor.mp3
| title4 = Fa hεn sie 1 tenor
| description4 = Tenor vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename5 = Fa hεn sie 1 bass.mp3
| title5 = Fa hεn sie 1 bass
| description5 = Bass vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
}}
| Problems playing these files? See media help. | |
For details on how to submit vocals, see Help:Submitting vocals.
Sol-fa Song Sheet
Wikichorus uses the sol2snd extension with the <sol2snd> tag to generate the song sheet. The sol2snd tag has the following optional attributes:
- tnum
- Time signature numerator (Defaults to 4)
- tden
- Time signature denominator (Defaults to 4)
- start
- Start beat. The position of the first beat relative to the accent (Cannot be greater than tnum, defaults to 1)
- linesize
- Number of beats per line (Defaults to 16)
The sol2snd text content is in sol2snd sol-fa shorthand which sets the
- Tempo
- Key signature
- Notes
For details on writing sol2snd notes, see sol2snd tune syntax.
For lyrics to be shown on the song sheet a child lyrics element can be added in the sol2snd element after the notes. The lyrics element contains run on, hyphen-syllabised lyrics. For more on writing lyrics, see tips adding sol2snd lyrics.
Song Sheet Example
<sol2snd tnum="4" tden="4" start="1" linesize="16">
120
F
s-f-m-rmd-t,-l,---f-m-r-dr{d-r-m---]d-t,-d-------
d-r-d-s,s,s,-s,-s,-f,-l,-ta,-l,-l,l,{s,-t,-d---]s,-s,-s,-------
m-l-s-fsm-r-d---d-de-r-ff{m-s-s---]m-r-f---m---
d-d-d-t,dd-m,-f,---f,-m,-f,-f,f,{s,-s,-d---]s,-s,-d-------
<lyrics>
Fa hεn sie A-gya fa hεn sie. Fa hεn sie W'a-tsa-ban n'a-se ban n'a-se
</lyrics>
</sol2snd>
Category
At least one category is recommended. You can add any category but consider checking the list of existing categories.
Category Example
[[Category:Akan songs]]
Full Example
{{Infobox musical composition
| name = Fa hεn Sie
| translation = Keep Us Safe
| composer =
| text =
| genre =
| language = Akan
| meter = 8.8.D
}}
== Lyrics ==
<poem>
Fa hεn sie, Agya fa hεn sie
Fa hεn sie W'ataban n'ase
</poem>
== Version 1 ==
{{listen
| filename = Fa hεn sie 1.mp3
| title = Fa hεn sie version 1 vocals
| description = Four part harmony of fa hεn sie version 1
| filename2 = Fa hεn sie 1 soprano.mp3
| title2 = Fa hεn sie 1 soprano
| description2 = Soprano vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename3 = Fa hεn sie 1 alto.mp3
| title3 = Fa hεn sie 1 alto
| description3 = Alto vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename4 = Fa hεn sie 1 tenor.mp3
| title4 = Fa hεn sie 1 tenor
| description4 = Tenor vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
| filename5 = Fa hεn sie 1 bass.mp3
| title5 = Fa hεn sie 1 bass
| description5 = Bass vocals for Fa hεn sie version 1
}}
<sol2snd tnum="4" tden="4" start="1" linesize="16">
120
F
s-f-m-rmd-t,-l,---f-m-r-dr{d-r-m---]d-t,-d-------
d-r-d-s,s,s,-s,-s,-f,-l,-ta,-l,-l,l,{s,-t,-d---]s,-s,-s,-------
m-l-s-fsm-r-d---d-de-r-ff{m-s-s---]m-r-f---m---
d-d-d-t,dd-m,-f,---f,-m,-f,-f,f,{s,-s,-d---]s,-s,-d-------
<lyrics>
Fa hεn sie A-gya fa hεn sie. Fa hεn sie W'a-tsa-ban n'a-se ban n'a-se
</lyrics>
</sol2snd>
== Version 2 ==
{{listen
| filename = Fa hεn sie 2.mp3
| title = Fa hεn sie version 2 vocals
| description = Four part harmony of fa hεn sie version 2
| filename2 = Fa hεn sie 2 soprano.mp3
| title2 = Fa hεn sie 2 soprano
| description2 = Soprano vocals for Fa hεn sie version 2
| filename3 = Fa hεn sie 2 alto.mp3
| title3 = Fa hεn sie 2 alto
| description3 = Alto vocals for Fa hεn sie version 2
| filename4 = Fa hεn sie 2 tenor.mp3
| title4 = Fa hεn sie 2 tenor
| description4 = Tenor vocals for Fa hεn sie version 2
| filename5 = Fa hεn sie 2 bass.mp3
| title5 = Fa hεn sie 2 bass
| description5 = Bass vocals for Fa hεn sie version 2
}}
<sol2snd tnum="4" tden="4" start="1" linesize="16">
120
F
s-f-m-rmd-t,-l,---f-m-r-dr{d-r-m---]d-t,-d-------
d-r-d-s,s,s,-t,-l,---l,-ta,-l,-l,l,{s,-t,-d---]s,-s,-s,-------
m-l-s-fsm-s-s-f-r-s-f-mf{m-s-s---]m-r-f---m---
d-d-d-t,dd-m,-f,---r,-m,-f,-m,f,{s,-s,-d---]s,-s,-d-------
<lyrics>
Fa hεn sie A-gya fa hεn sie. Fa hεn sie W'a-tsa-ban n'a-se ban n'a-se
</lyrics>
</sol2snd>
[[Category:Akan songs]]
Bugs
If you see a red Script error on the page where the infobox should be it is not your fault. This wiki needs to be upgraded to support the infobox and listen templates. When this is done your markup will work fine. If you do not want the Script error to show in the meantime you can comment out the templates, i.e. enclose them in <!-- -->
