Why not simply define a custom line starting with ad lib. Followed by - - - - - and a down hook -| and draw that around the measures you need to be marked.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owain Sutton Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: ad lib I've seen plenty of 'ad lib' passages where the intended result was basically a cadenza. A dictionary is unlikely to keep up with the interpretation of such instructions. David H. Bailey wrote: > While ad.lib. often means the performer is in control of tempo/in, > strictly speaking it means the section can be taken or not, at the > pleasure of the performer. At least that's how it is defined in the New > Harvard Dictionary of Music. > > > > Michael Withers wrote: > >> Thinking about it ... is 'ad lib' the right term for a few bars that >> can be >> missed out? I'm more used to seeing 'ad lib' in the context of >> cadenzas or >> sections where the 'soloist' is in control of the tempo/interpretation. >> >> Maybe the bars in question should be indicated with brackets and >> marked as >> 'optional'. >> >> Michael Withers >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Owain Sutton >> Sent: 20 January 2004 22:57 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: ad lib >> >> >> >> >> Aaron Sherber wrote: >> >>> Hoping someone can help me out with my current brain >>> short-circuit... >>> >>> In the middle of a piece of music, let's say there are a few bars >>> which the oboe can play or can leave out, at the conductor's >>> discretion. So those bars are marked 'ad lib.' Immediately following >>> are bars which the oboe must play. What indication cancels the ad >>> lib? >>> >>> I know that one way of making this clear is to print the ad lib >>> section with reduced noteheads, but isn't there some term which I >>> can use as well? Is the answer simply 'Play'? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Aaron. >>> >> >> >> >> I guess the translation of Ab Lib. as 'at pleasure' means there's >> probably no negative. Unless you want to instruct the players to >> perform 'without pleasure'. Perhaps a textual (english) description, >> or even "cancel ad lib.", would be better? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> . >> > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
