I may not yet understand you, but what you describe sounds like a first ending/second ending situation. The second ending would include the upbeat to the second phrase of course, but would be part of a complete measure. Of course, that second ending could be any meter you wanted.
To my knowledge, there's no such thing as a "pickup" bar in the midst of a piece of music in the same sense as at the beginning. You have to account for the beats with a time signature, although it could be invisible. An exception would be if this were a 2nd movement, I suppose, but you'd still have to use the edit region feature to change the measure numbers to whatever you wanted them to be. If I'm still missing the point, I yield! Richard > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:15:48 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Up beats (pickup beats?) anacruses > > In a message dated 16/12/2003 20:06:15 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > >> ). Go to Options >Document Settings >Set Pickups > > Thanks - once again I have not been clear in what I am asking. > > For example - a minuet with a crotchet up-beat (pickup?) with a repeated > first phrase and an up-beat to the second section. Finale counts the up-beat > bar > to the 2nd phrase (which contains only one crotchet) as an extra bar. I have > to go through the rigmarole of "bar numbers" "edit region" etc > > If I could select the last bar of the first phrase (which contains only two > beats) and the up beat bar (which contains only one beat) and ask finale to > treat the selected bars as one bar for the purposes of bar numbering life > would > be much easier. > > All the best, > > Lawrence > > "žaes ofereode - žisses swa maeg" > > http://lawrenceyates.co.uk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
