At 9:31 PM -0700 9/30/05, Mark D Lew wrote:
What you really need is to make the music spacing look as much as possible like it would if there were no lyrics, then nudge the lyrics around to fit that, adjusting the music only as much as necessary for the lyrics -- preferably by stretching the music uniformly in systems where the lyrics require more space, and nudging notes around only where necessary for unusually syllable combinations.
Hi, Mark. It's a fact of life, and has been since about the 9th or 10th centuries, that the text takes more space than the notes (unless you're talking about VERY long melismas!). You might as well admit it and treat your layout accordingly. If there's anything a singer does NOT need it's lyrics that are shmushed together. Medieval scribes wrote in the text first (after scribing the staff lines). The first music printers in the 16th century had to do the same. Finale, of course, does not allow this, nor does any other notation program I know of.
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