On 7/21/2012 12:57 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: [snip]> > Thanks for the quick answer. The reason I'm asking is because my > friendly local dictionary doesn't have these words hyphenated the way > they are pronounced in this context. > > I would have absolutely put normally-one-syllable words like "howl" > (rhymes with "vowel") on a slur, but every last one of these examples > is repeated pitches on eighth notes and my music teacher brain starts > to bubble with two eighths of the same pitch on the same beat with a > slur that looks like a tie. > > I need to make "attire" look like it rhymes with "Meyer", which is > definitely two syllables and on repeating eighth notes. > [snip]
I think you can do what you want but you need to provide explanatory text for at least the director (if it's a choral piece) or on the piano/vocal score. And if it adds a page to the layout, then so be it -- the expense of that extra page will be a tiny fraction of the expense of the time wasted trying to work out what you meant if you don't explain it clearly. For the "ism" words I'd put a hyphen between the s and the m and in the explanatory text I would say something to the effect of: "The ism words all must end with the sound izzem, clearly two syllables. I have shown that by placing a hyphen between the s and the m even though that's not grammatically correct." If you want attire and Meyer to rhyme, do a similar thing. Place a hyphen between the i and the re like this: at-ti-re. And explain that the word has to have three syllables and rhyme with Meyer. For howl place a hyphen between the w and the l and explain that it should sound like the name Howell. If you make the explanatory text clear enough you can do what you want in the music itself and the performance should be just fine and easy to understand. But don't let this piece go without the explanatory text or you'll have endless discussions in rehearsal about what was actually meant by how you laid out the text. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
