In the case you mention, there is a solution used by some composers which rids the part's interpreter of the necessity to have to consult the conductor's score with a straight-edge in order to discern between which beats these dynamic changes should take place. Instead of a whole note, it would simply be two halves tied with the 'pp' under the second half note. If there is another ff on the last eigth it would be nice to see that tied as well, if it is important to the composer that the time element of the dynamic changes be strictly interpreted.
But in much music a rough visual display is enough, and the use of the measure-attached expression for this is, of course, the one to use. Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Finale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Expressions > On 02 Apr 2003, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: > > > Measure attached expressions are good for > > entering the same marking on many staves at > > once, but I think there is not much more > > advantage than that. > > I generally also use note-attached expressions, but there is another situation where meas-attached is quite useful, and that is for indicating dynamic changes on a long note. > > E.g., imagine a whole note that starts ff with a hairpin down to pp on the third beat then back up to ff on the last eighth. The latter two dynamics are much better placed as "This Staff Only" meas-attached exps, because they maintain their metric positions regardless of future spacing changes. > > -- > Robert Patterson > > http://www.robertgpatterson.com > > > _____________________________________________- > > __ > > Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
