LilyPond Internals Reference: 1.1.38 LyricEvent

### 1.1.38 LyricEvent

A lyric syllable. Must be entered in lyrics mode, i.e., `\lyrics { twinkle4 twinkle4 }` .

Event classes: lyric-event, music-event, rhythmic-event and StreamEvent.

Accepted by: Lyric_engraver and Lyric_performer.

Properties:

> `name` (symbol):

>   `'LyricEvent`

>   Name of this music object.

> `types` (list):

>   `'(general-music rhythmic-event lyric-event event)`

>   The types of this music object; determines by what engraver this music expression is processed.

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