Greetings Listers,
I am try to transcribe the Zither Carol and I don't know how to make a few things happen.
Here are my questions:
Soprano and alto must use an independant time signature at various times during the music. The carol is written in 3/4 time, but the soprano and alto are in 2/4. During the chorus, all the voices use the same time signature.
Although I can write the parts just fine, I notice that due to the different time signatures, soprano and alto have 20 measures total when tenors and bass have 18. Playback is a mess.
How can I get around this issue and have the parts play back correctly together? The 2/4 bars in the sop and alto move very slowly...the 3/4 bars are correct.
I'm assuming that you want beat one of each 2/4 measure for Soprano and Alto parts to coincide with beat one of each 3/4 measure for Tenor and Bass parts. If that isn't what you desire then the rest of this won't be helpful at all.
When you have two different meters that move at different speeds, there is a problem with playback in Finale, because it will treat all quarter notes in the same song at the same speed unless you define tuplets.
So if one part has three quarter-notes' worth of music which must be played during the two quarter-notes' amount of time of the other part, what you have to do is to assign tuplets to one or the other part, use independent time signatures but in defining the signatures set them to be the same but use different signatures for display.
Example:
Soprano and alto parts (independent time signature):
2/4, defined as 3/4 but with 2/4 set for display, then assign each measure as a tuplet (without number or bracket) where 2 quarter notes are played in the space of 3 quarter notes.
Tenor and bass parts:
3/4 as normal.
Then for the chorus section, set both time signatures to 3/4.
Thus each measure will occupy the same space, but the notes will be spread out evenly to cover the same amount of time within both parts.
Again, if I have misunderstood your problem this won't help at all and I apologize.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
