I hate to contradict David, whose posts are generally dead-on, but... Give a violin part to 10 violinists and you'll get at least 11 different bowings!
Neal Gittleman Sent from my iPhone (so please excuse any tap-pos!) > On Aug 15, 2017, at 2:56 PM, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
