Personally, I think that's terrible practice. There is a key change
before a quarter-note pickup? Use an accidental, fercrissakes, and
change the key sig at the beginning of the next bar.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 24 May 2007, at 7:50 PM, John Roberts wrote:
Thanks for the reply. As to the why, that's the way it is in the
guitar
manuscript I'm typesetting, no double barlines, and several
successive key
changes for 4-bar phrases, with the key change before a quarter-
note length
pickup.
John
On 5/24/07 6:52 PM, "dhbailey"
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John Roberts wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but can I legally change the key signature
in the
middle of a measure? And in modern practice, do I still need a
double
barline with a change of key signature? If not, and if the answer
to my
first question is "yes," how would I accomplish that in Finale?
(Hidden
barlines and lots of futzing with the measure number tool?)
Legally? Certainly -- there aren't any notation cops who'll come
knocking in the middle of the night and hit you up-side the head
with a
lead anacrusis or anything.
Is it advisable? Depends on who the musicians are who'll be
reading the
music. They'll let you know in no uncertain terms if they don't
like it.
My first question is "Why?" If there's any way to avoid it, my
advice
would be to do so.
Finale will only allow you to change key at the start of the
measure, so
you're right you have to futz around with making that measure with
the
mid-measure key change into 2 measures and making the barline of the
first of the two resulting measures hidden.
In Fin2007, you can set the measure attribute for the second
measure so
that it isn't calculated in the measure numbers. In earlier versions
you have to monkey around with defining additional regions to
handle the
measure number hassles that result from such division of current
measures.
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