I wonder why Finale programmers put a kind of fermata after the "," sign, breathing does not mean changing the tempo of the piece!
Il 05/11/2012 12:05, David H. Bailey ha scritto: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
