>>(my pet hate is the bar lines all above one another straight down the page!)
>dance musicians usually really appreciate a format in
>which sections and major phrases start on a new staff, and
>corresponding parts of phrases line up vertically....
>Dance musicians are usually very much aware of rhythm and
>phrasing, and if this these correspond closely to the position of the
>notes on the page, then keeping your place is a lot easier.
But you can have four or eight measures/bars on every line (so that the
phrases and sections are clear) and still not have the bar lines line up
exactly. FINALE does note-spacing, so the different measures/bars are
different lengths and you can adjust them to look nice. Not to mention,
the pickup notes usually make sure the bar lines don't line up exactly
anyway. BTW in the pipe books I have (admittedly only a few), the bar
lines aren't all lined up the way somebody claimed they were.
- Kate D.
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Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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