Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-12 Thread dhbailey
Stephen Lamb wrote: I'm currently working on editing a piece for orchestra and narrator, and a question came up about standard practice. Often, when the narrator is delivering his line, there are rests in the orchestra with fermatas over them. I've inserted cues, the last line the narrator

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-12 Thread John Howell
And a great gift for a conductor! Thanks, Ryan; good to know. I was thinking rental only since it isn't in the Luck's Catalog. John At 10:14 PM -0800 1/11/10, Ryan Beard wrote: The score to Lincoln portrait is readily available from Boosey Hawkes in their affordable masterworks study

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-12 Thread John Howell
At 8:26 AM +0100 1/12/10, Jari Williamsson wrote: In addition to the works already listed by others, Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has the full cues listed. The cues are with music, sometimes the cue is at one single fermata, sometimes the cue spans over multiple

[Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread Stephen Lamb
I'm currently working on editing a piece for orchestra and narrator, and a question came up about standard practice. Often, when the narrator is delivering his line, there are rests in the orchestra with fermatas over them. I've inserted cues, the last line the narrator reads, in all the

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread Robert Patterson
I'm not sure there is standard practice. The two std. rep. pieces for orchestra with narration that come to mind are Peter and the Wolf and Mendelssohn's MIdsummer Night's Dream. The Prokofiev includes the entire narration in the score, as I believe also does the Mendelssohn. (The parts for both

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread John Howell
At 7:19 PM -0600 1/11/10, Stephen Lamb wrote: I'm currently working on editing a piece for orchestra and narrator, and a question came up about standard practice. Often, when the narrator is delivering his line, there are rests in the orchestra with fermatas over them. I've inserted cues,

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread John Howell
At 8:39 PM -0600 1/11/10, Robert Patterson wrote: I'm not sure there is standard practice. The two std. rep. pieces for orchestra with narration that come to mind are Peter and the Wolf and Mendelssohn's MIdsummer Night's Dream. The Prokofiev includes the entire narration in the score, as I

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Beard
The score to Lincoln portrait is readily available from Boosey Hawkes in their affordable masterworks study scores series. It's in an anthology with a few other tunes. Makes a great tax deduction! On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:32 PM, John Howell john.how...@vt.edu wrote: At 8:39 PM -0600 1/11/10,

Re: [Finale] Narrations in score

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Williamsson
In addition to the works already listed by others, Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has the full cues listed. The cues are with music, sometimes the cue is at one single fermata, sometimes the cue spans over multiple fermatas. Best regards, Jari Williamsson