On 11/4/2012 2:16 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: [snip]> I mention this because I'm in rehearsal at this very moment for a > show with a 50 piece chorus and 30 piece orchestra and the MD asked > the brass to mark in a breath just at the end of their entry to > effect a similar phrase ending as the choir were making. A good idea > and it worked well.
It worked well because all the brass marked it in their own parts, in their own handwriting, and so are going to remember why it was put in there. Had it been printed there would probably have been a waste of rehearsal time while everybody tried to figure out just what was meant by adding a breath mark just before a multi-measure rest. There's a big difference between the markings we make ourselves (and thus serve as gentle reminders of what we're supposed to do) and the marking that are printed and that we need to guess at what the composers' intentions were. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
