At 8:11 AM -0700 8/7/11, Mark D Lew wrote: > >I agree with Daniel on this, and I was a little >surprised to see so many people say or imply >this is unorthodox. I've seen plenty of old >sources that put the comma after the word >extension, and I prefer it. I also had a regular >client who asked for it that way, and I had to >tell her it couldn't be easily done. I think >this is another case where limitations of the >software have forced a standard, and it's been >long enough now that people think it's weird to >see it any other way.
That COULD be true, except that I would bet that the convention goes back to pre-software days when people engraved with metal on metal, and even to (gasp!!!) using pen and ink!!! And of course it's always possible to find exceptions to any convention. Some publishers still use individual flags rather than beaming in vocal music, and some singers actually like it that way! I'd say that the "rules" could be found in the Chicago Style Manual, or the equivalent in the APA Style Manual for the sciences, except that writing text alone doesn't get into word extensions. Or maybe it does, in the case of an inserted ellipsis, in which case the punctuation mark DOES go at the end of the word, and not at the end of the 3 dots. On the other hand, with an inserted parenthetical expression, the punctuation goes AFTER the expression. Of course I approach this question as a singer, and as someone who writes a lot for singers, and I know what I want to see and what I think is the most unambiguous to a singer who is sightreading. The more information and the sooner it's given, the better. I have a bunch of Broadway piano-vocal scores, and if I have time tonight I'll take a quick look through them. But of course Daniel has to satisfy his client, whatever any of us think. He was just asking HOW to do so. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
