On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Andrew Levin wrote:
I have a question about parts and scores. I know the long way to fix
this, but I'm wondering if there is a short way.
Specifically, I'm writing an orchestral score that has, of course, two
parts per woodwind line. There are times when it alternates between
one part playing and two, so I keep the parts separate. For example,
the first part may play continuously, but the second part may play
only every other measure.
For this I'd keep the first part stems up, but the difficulty lies in
the second part where there is nothing in the measure. I'd like to
show the whole measure rest in the second part. But this part of the
music is in 3/8 time. That means forcing a whole measure rest (and
dealing with the annoying dialog box reminding me that I've put too
many beats there). Then, of course, extracting parts (first with
TGTools) is problemmatic, since I now have real rests instead of the
Finale make-believe rests (I forgot what they're called), which
botches up multi-measure rests.
I know that if I could just deal with a score with no rest in the
second part, or alternate putting in a "1." designating the solo part,
my problem is solved, but that's not the way scores are done (I'm
speaking of fairly rapid alternations of solo and duet parts, not when
a solo part plays for longer stretches). If I put in real whole
measure rests, then I must find them all when it's time to prepare
individual parts.
Am I missing something? Is there a way with Finale itself or a plug-in
that will help me here?
Thanks.
Andrew Levin
TG Tools (at least, the pro version) removes entered rests when the
measure contains nothing but rests, so that problem is solved. It can
also cause problems, for instance, if you have a measure with nothing
in it but a whole rest with a fermata on it, the measure will not have
the fermata after TG Tools gets through with it, and multimeasure rests
will not be broken at that measure (unless you set it in Measure
Attributes).
In any case, in Finale's included plugins there is one under Note Beam
and Rest Editing called Change to Default Whole Rests which will take
care of any entered whole rests. Run it on the second part once it is
split.
To turn off the annoying warning, in the Speedy menu uncheck the option
"Check for Extra Notes."
Christopher
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