At 9:27 PM -0400 4/20/12, Christopher Smith wrote: >No, I wouldn't. With the cue in the same layer as the real music, it >shows up correctly, even with voiced parts. > >If you don't want the cue to show in the score, you can hide it with >a staff style there, and hide the rests if necessary. I have been >conducting a lot of concert band music recently and enjoy the >convention of little-used instruments being cued in other parts and >the cue just noted in the score as [Bn.] or [Ob.] in the measure >where it starts. Then I don't have to ask the band, "Anyone have a >bassoon cue?" or pore through every part beforehand looking for cues. > >Christopher
Same thing for me in concert band music. But does it really bother anyone to see the cues in your score? I've long agreed with David Bailey that the conductor should always see exactly what each player sees, and I can't think of a situation that I'd want it any different. In fact for a recent concert on which I guest conducted I mistakenly printed a concert pitch score instead of a transposed score, and reading it drove me nuts because I WANT to see what the players see. With a concert score I have to transpose an individual part so know what the player's really playing. I do realize that others disagree--especially those who are pianists. 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:john.how...@vt.edu) 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 Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
