On 28 Jan 2006 at 8:23, dc wrote: > How many verses can one put under a vocal line without confusing the > singer? I'm doing an Italian piece with no less than 10 verses. How > many should I keep under the music? And then, what do I do with the > others? Add the text only after the music? Repeat the music with new > text?
I would say that 5 or 6 is the maximum I've ever seen in a hymn book. In any other kind of music, I'd think 4 would just about be the limit (though it the piece had 5 verses, I'd probably fit them all in). I often see pieces with 1 verse in the music and 8 or 10 verses printed down below, and I just think that's not good, as it makes everything very hard after the first verse. I'd do it with 4 in the music and the remaining 6 at the bottom, unless there was some reason that 4 verses would cause bad spacing problems. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
