On 8/15/2017 3:14 PM, Michael Dutka wrote: > Hi, folks. Reviewing a fairly large opera score, about 160 minutes of > music, and one thing that would be phenomenally helpful is some kind of > plug-in or app that would let Finale users see every up and down bow, even > when they're not written in. > > The string players I've spoken to don't like it when I write in every > bowing mark, and ask me only to write them in when they're not obvious. But > it's easy for me (as a non-string player) to lose track, and possibly write > in a bad bowing combination, and we all know what working out problems > during rehearsals with live musicians costs. > > Is there any such thing around? Anything one of you brilliant plug-in/app > writers would want to create? I, for one, would pay a lot of money for > something like that, and can't think I'm the only one. > > Just curious. Thanks, >
Give a violin part to 10 violinists to bow and you'll get 10 different sets of bowing. There's no single way of bowing that everybody would agree on so no plug-in would ever work. The best a plug-in could do would be to indicate alternating up and down bows on each articulated note in sequence and indicate a single bowing at the start of a slur. But I'm not sure why you would want such a plug-in, since no matter what you indicate the concertmaster will change it. Best to leave the bowings unmarked unless there is something you definitely want on an up-bow or a down-bow. And mark those sparingly. Leave such things to the people who will be playing the parts. -- ***** David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
