Shows up in choral music a lot. Not rare in my work.

---- "David W. Fenton" <lists.fin...@dfenton.com> wrote: 
> On 14 Jun 2009 at 23:55, Barbara Touburg wrote:
> 
> > David W. Fenton wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've always wondered why the default fermata articulation has 
> > > over/under definitions. I've never seen a score that puts the fermata 
> > > anywhere but OVER the staff, and always have to change this when I 
> > > end up with a file that uses the defaults.
> > > 
> > > This has always struck me as one of the places where the Finale 
> > > defaults are just wrong.
> > > 
> > When there are two separate parts on a staff (soprano-alto, tenor-bass) 
> > you always put the fermata both over and under the music.
> 
> Fine. In that rare situation, you create a fermata for that. In the 
> 18 years I've used Finale, the number of times I've never encountered 
> that situation could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
> 
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