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>