Always funny when threads loose their original point. I asked for a Final breath mark articulation that would not delay the pulse of Human Playback, as the hanging comma is interpreted as a caesura by HP. On that matter I have drawn the conclusion, that if using the hanging comma then as an expression. Nobody accused any player of delaying the pulse as a result of a breath mark in the part. That error is alone with Finale’s HP.
As a PS I mentioned being scolded for not placing breath marks just before a multi measure rest, because a self alleged authority wanted the phrasing marks uniform with the parts that continued playing. From the way my thinking was trained, it is profoundly wrong to put a breath mark in front of any length of rest, even the shortest. If the parts with the mm-rests are supposed to cut off at the start of the rest, I would put a tenuto articulation over their last note. Otherwise I would assume their musicianship lead them to a phrasing being uniform with the parts having breath marks, as that would be the phrasing the conductor would express. Klaus >________________________________ > From: Christopher Smith <[email protected]> > >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 > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
