The publishers of this genre offer supplementary charts for everything from rhythm sections to full orchestrations. On the lead sheets (the only charts that would have symbols) they may or may not follow the vertical convention...I just don't see those charts enough to notice. But their octavos use vertically-stacked chords, and these often are used by guitar and bass players when the church doesn't buy the other charts or on music for which such charts aren't available.
There are many evangelical music publishers, so if I said "all" I clearly shouldn't have. I checked several examples in my own library, however, and saw them using vertical stacks. Given the small size of octavos, every millimeter of space counts, and the vertically-stacked chords make a big difference in that regard. And frankly, I prefer them for ease of reading. But, to each his own. RH > From: Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >... And actually, now that I think of it, I've played piano and arranged > horn parts for some gospel choirs here and there, and the music they > used all had chord symbols with diagonal slashes, just like a normal > pop chart would. So it's evidently not *all* of the evangelical choral > market.... _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
