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- 02 Mar 2024, 22:00
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Alignment of lyric hyphens
- Replies: 4
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Alignment of lyric hyphens
This is how Finale has spaced the hyphens for two versions of a vocal line on the same stave (depending on how long-breathed the singer might be :4 = 60). It goes across three pages in the full score, with the hyphens of the two versions misaligned vertically on the middle page. Does this misalignme...
- 29 Feb 2024, 21:56
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Any percussion help? (translations)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4984
Re: Any percussion help? (translations)
FWIW I see Boulez in his directions for the vibraphone refers to vibrato in various ways: thus sans vibrato , vibrato lent , vibrato normal , vibrato moyen and so on. However, given that directions in English (including my own - see screenshot) usually refer to ‘motor on’ &c, a direct French tra...
- 13 Feb 2024, 22:33
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fermata question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5718
Re: Fermata question
Like this then? The direction col canto allows the singer some freedom immediately after the pausa. The first bar of the next system is marked giusto.
- 13 Feb 2024, 19:59
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fermata question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5718
Fermata question
Should the pausa (fermata) in the voice part at bar 126 be on a crotchet (quarter) rest to be the same as in the instrumental parts, or is it OK as it is? ( = 96)
- 30 Jan 2024, 12:49
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: glissando question (text vs no-text)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5561
Re: glissando question (text vs no-text)
FWIW I have usually employed a wavy gliss line for trombone glissandi taking up all or most of the value of the starting note and a straight line to indicate a quick quasi-portamento glissando at the end of the first note. This notation is not actively recommended by any authority, but in my case it...
- 21 Jan 2024, 20:51
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Enharmonic symbol
- Replies: 28
- Views: 460930
Re: Enharmonic symbol
I've decided to add a cautionary accidental to the first note, which should be sufficient help, without muddying the waters too much. I added a cautionary reminder of the E flat in the key signature after an F sharp (Soprano voice bar 191 - crotchet = 54). Most of the preceding eight minutes or so ...
- 19 Dec 2023, 19:59
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Finale 27.4 released
- Replies: 14
- Views: 216753
Re: Finale 27.4 released
Oh, if only I weren't so old! (due to be 83 in February). If I weren't, I'm sure I would be using Dorico by now with (perhaps) something like the same fluency as Michel. However, I still feel reluctant to make the change, to the extent that if Finale becomes unusable on whatever hardware I use in fu...
- 15 Dec 2023, 21:54
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: fingered tremolo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 86997
Re: fingered tremolo
To me it all looks fine (and easy to read) in the score, but I suspect others may disagree.
- 04 Nov 2023, 10:03
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: accidentals (corrected)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18924
Re: accidentals (corrected)
… … …But I'd also like them to follow the rule of flattening the succeeding notes because the passage is moving downward.… … … I'm not sure how strongly that need apply when you have a sharp key signature. Even without a key signature, I think it might depend on the general musical context. Any suc...
- 29 Oct 2023, 21:49
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument
- Replies: 4
- Views: 30979
Re: Tempo text positioning for voice, piano & one extra instrument
Once at the top and once above the piano, and I should have both iterations the same size.