At 9:02 AM -0500 2/11/12, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >I'll add one final detail to the discussion. I initially said that the >single moving part had 4 sixteenth notes. In fact, the instrument has a >dotted eighth and two 32nd notes. For those of you who felt that seeing >four 16th rests with fermatas was fine, does this change your opinion? >Personally, even if I were inclined to use the fermatas with the 16ths, >the thought of dotted 8th and two 32nd rests with fermatas feels very >different.
There are times when a little extra effort in the engraving can save a lot of valuable rehearsal time, and perhaps this is one of them. How about indicating the moving part in cue notes, or even in an ossiah above the staff? Then the single fermata in the parts can remain simple but the ongoing activity would be perfectly clear. You're right that there are several variables. But you can have simple and confusing, complicated and confusing, or complicated and clear, but what you really WANT is simple and clear! John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
