Dennis, Regarding your question, > Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small > variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one > syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. > > What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows the > syllabification? Two stems, one with flags, the other with a beam? Or?
I'm not prepared to call it "standard", but my customary method of dealing with the situation you describe is to prepare the notation for the greatest number of syllables, and use a dotted slur (or more rarely a dotted tie) to indicate the notes that are sung together on a single syllable in some instances. I have seen others use a notation such as s. 3 (for stanza 3) to indicate to which stanzas the multiple notes apply, but I don't personally use this device. ns > Thanks, > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
