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Here is an example that shows some techniques you might use when
writing chant.
1: 1a; lyrics 1: "This<^ is an example of one way>"; bar 1: d;e;2f; lyrics 1: "to do chant."; bar 1: 1f; lyrics 1: "when<^ there are many words for a>"; bar 1: d;f;2; lyrics 1: "sin-gle note."; dblbar newscore // Note use of 'n' to not print the time signature score time=7/4n music 1: a;;;b;g;2a; lyrics 1: "When there are man-y notes,"; bar score time=8/4n music 1: d;e;f;e;f;8e;;2; lyrics 1: "You might change the time sig-na-ture"; bar score time=5/4n music 1: a;e;;2d; lyrics 1: "on ev-ery bar,"; bar score time=7/4n music 1: e;f;e;d;c;2d; lyrics 1: "to match the syl-la-bles."; dblbar newscore score time=8/4n music // Note use of 'n' to not print tuplet number/bracket 1: {d;e;f;g;e;2d;;}10n,1/2; lyrics 1: "You can al-so use tup-lets,"; invisbar 1: {f;g;e;2d;e;2.d;}9n,1/2; lyrics 1: "A-long with in-vis-bars."; dblbar newscore score stemlen=0 music 1: d+;c+;b;g;2a;; lyrics 1: "Set stem-len to ze-ro,"; invisbar 1: {f;2e;4d;c;1d;}9n,1/2; lyrics 1: "to get stem-less notes."; endbar