On Mon Nov 5, at MondayNov 5 6:05 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > 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]
While I agree with the premise that as performers we treat our own marks a bit differently than the published marks, I disagree on the point in question. I am a brass player and I see published breath marks notated as commas just before rests all the time. We all know what they mean, and none of us adds time to the measure. We take it out of the length of the last note. Furthermore, it would save rehearsal time if we saw them more often. While some consider that to be the kind of thing that gets worked out at rehearsal (true enough) we always appreciate it when those kind of things are (correctly) marked. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
