At 10:04 AM +0200 7/22/12, SN jef chippewa wrote: >i am not aware of norms in lyrics, but in normal text i think the >closest thing to this would be square brackets around the >transliteration (which is underneath the original) with no italics >except where the original text itself is in italics. the square >brackets should NEVER be in italics despite what they contain.
That might indeed work. In normal text, of course, square brackets indicate an editorial interjection, and are interlineal with the text itself. That would definitely NOT work in lyrics, which must be clearly attached to notes. There are certainly "norms" for lyrics (which may very well differ in other countries or other languages). That doesn't mean there are "rules." It's probably more akin to publishers' style norms, and some are certainly easier for singers to read than others. But those of us who deal with singers and with lyrics on a daily basis recognize those norms--and certainly recognize deviations from those norms! One of the things our students complained the most about in Finale was the difficulty in dealing with lyrics, which made Sibelius' handling of them such a wonderful change when my department adopted it. 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
