John Howell wrote:
At 6:03 PM -0800 12/14/05, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Darcy,
Don't you need a pickup beat to show the new tempo? It's not clear
to me how that will work. Something 's got to indicate the change of
speed before it actually happens. I think I'd be considering putting
the hold on the third beat and making the fourth beat be in the new
tempo. Does that seem logical to you?
Actually it's always possible to make the cutoff also the upbeat, and
it's trivial to indicate the new tempo and mood in the upbeat itself.
It's what good conductors do!
John
In my scores I've sometimes tried to hook the new tempo and character
indications to an upbeat, and it always causes problems when extracting
parts. Invariably, good spacing would put the pickup at or near the end
of the line, but all that text hooked to it won't allow it. It's much
easier to put the text on the next downbeat and, as John say, let the
conductor figure out that the pickup is in the new tempo.
As far as the dotted half rest with the fermata attached - that is the
exactly the situation in which I have most commonly seen dotted half
rests in 4/4 scores. Makes sense. As does John's suggestion of the
fermata on the third beat - depending on the music - which I've long
forgotten.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
occasional composer and arranger,
Louisville Orchestra
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