On Dec 4, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: > But your parallel is not an equal one. If an informed composer chooses to > break the rules of harmony, the sound will be readily apparent. If he/she > breaks the rules of hyphenation, the sound will be apparent only if it is > for some clear and obvious purpose - but the choir director or singer may > easily ignore odd divisions and sing it normally - not so with harmony.
Good point. I suppose a better comparison would be the typographic rules of engraving, which I will generally follow but would not hesitate to break for the sake of better clarity and communication. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
