<lyricist>

The <lyricist> element names whoever wrote the words to the piece.

Parent

<header>

Content

Either plain text or up to three <text> children, one per alignment, the same content model <annotation> uses. align is required on each and accepts left, center, or right, and each alignment may appear at most once.

Plain text renders centered. That differs from <annotation>, where plain text is left-aligned, because a credit sits under the title rather than in the body of the score.

The text prints exactly as written. Nothing is prefixed or appended, so a score reading ผู้แต่งคำร้อง : Example Lyricist is one where the arranger typed that whole string. A tool reading this as metadata takes the same text, concatenating the <text> children left to right when there are several.

Example

<header>
  <lyricist>Example Lyricist</lyricist>
</header>

<!-- Right-aligned, with the label the arranger wants -->
<header>
  <lyricist>
    <text align="right">ผู้แต่งคำร้อง : Example Lyricist</text>
  </lyricist>
</header>

Notes

• Optional. Omit it for instrumental pieces, or when the lyricist is unknown, rather than filling it with a placeholder.
• Use one <lyricist> element per person when a piece has several.
• This names the writer only. The words themselves go in a lyric part, as <syllable> elements on the grid.
• Renders in the title band. See The title band.

Conformance

• Where a <lyricist> has <text> children, they are its content and any sibling text is ignored. Validators should warn when the ignored text is not merely whitespace.
• At most one <text> child per align value.