I vote for the top example. General rule of thumb: in vocal music, because the lyrics go below the notes, always place anything else that has text characters or numbers in it above the staff. It makes for a clean depiction.
This goes for all dynamic markings, expressions, and tuplet brackets/numbers. As for the vertical placement of slurs and brackets: your top example is good. The context (intervals, slur angles) defines whether the brackets should go above or below the slur. If there were a set rule for this, some passages would look good and others would necessarily look bad. My practice is to favour the bracket being closer to the noteheads, but not in all cases. Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fisher, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:51 AM Subject: [Finale] Tuplet Question > List-- > > I'm engraving a 4 and/or 5 staff choral piece. One page has many > bracketed tuplets on it that have slurs that fall on the same side as > the tuplet bracket sits. I'm unsure where the slurs should be in > relation to the tuplet brackets. My scouring of Read, Ross, and the like > seem to contradict each other. > > I've placed the two things that look the most acceptable here (WARNING: > Turn on your pop-up blockers! I hate geocities,but it's all I got at the > moment...): > > http://www.geocities.com/ajf55343/tuplet > > Any insight from the collective wisdom is much appreciated... > > Allen > MM Lurker > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
