On Apr 28, 2007, at 11:50 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Like most people, I have more than 12 dynamic expressions alone.
Finale's template comes with 17 (ffff through pppp, various fp's
and sfz's, and a sub. p.). Since you do vocal music, you'd want a
second set of dynamics set to auto-position above the staff or
note, assigned to separate metatools. (There is a MakeMusic-
provided vocal dynamics library that you can use as a starting point.)
For orchestral music, I have metatools for all the dynamics; mute,
mute out, and mute off; arco and pizz.; solo and tutti; div. and
unis., a2, 1., 2., 3., 4.; sul tasto, sul pont., ord., and many
others.
Wow. This boggles my mind. I rarely do a piece that has more than 20
different expressions, much less that many that I'd want in a
template for every piece. I'm pretty sure I've never used pppp or
ffff anywhere.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Another thought that just occurred to me: I suppose you have many of
those expressions defined for playback, in which case I can certainly
see why you wouldn't want to just type them fresh each time. I don't
do playback, except for occasional rudimentary proofreading, so for
me if I need, say, "rallentando", it's easier to just type it anew
than to fish it out from among rit, ritard, ritardando, molto rit,
rall, molto rall, and whatever else you've got on the list.
As for Finale's templates, I don't think I've looked at a MakeMusic/
Coda-provided template since Finale 97.
mdl
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