Hi Blake, Tuplets across barlines are commonplace in contemporary music. Fracturing them into mirrored half-tuplets is misspelling them. And if you also have staggered or nested tuplets in the score you'll see how important it is to spell them correctly. So put the tuplet across the barline if that's what your client has specified.
In practical terms, enter the tuplet as normal and hide an equivalent value of the tuplet portion that falls across into in the next measure. A little tweaking of the spacing will be needed when you're done. If it must break across a system (avoid it if you can for tuplet clarity) it's a little more complicated because the barline prison doesn't like to be broken out of. If you have staggered or nested tuplets especially, you can place part of the tuplet at the barline and use a parenthetical fractured tuplet below (kind of like the phonetic versions of names you'll see on a news reader's teleprompter). Dennis On Sun, September 5, 2010 10:26 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi Blake, > > Assuming you have any editorial input at all, the answer is: "don't." > > Tuplets should, under normal circumstances, obey the same rules as other types > of notation with regard to every measure being rhythmically complete. So your > example should actually be written and inputted as: > > quarter rest + eighth note (tied over the measure), all under a triplet > bracket > > Beginning of next bar should be: > > eighth note (tied from previous measure) + quarter note, all under a triplet > bracket > > I realize that with certain more complex over-the-bar tuplets, breaking a note > at the barline is sometimes impractical, but this example doesn't even begin > to rise to that level. It's much more clear when notated in a conventional > manner. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On 5 Sep 2010, at 9:31 PM, Blake Richardson wrote: > >> I'm working with Finale 2009 on a Mac and I can't figure out how to extend a >> quarter-note triplet pattern over a barline as in the following example. >> >> http://gallery.me.com/btr1701/100039 >> >> (Click on the thumbnail and it will enlarge.) >> >> Any suggestions would be welcome. >> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
