I was answering the top half of your post.. after that we seem to agree! Maybe I'm misreading(?) but the rest of your post would make sense still if you'd started with 'I agree'. Or maybe we mean different things with 'register doesn't matter'?
Steve P. On 19 Feb 2012, at 01:52, Raymond Horton <horton.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Read my post, Steve. I read yours! > > Raymond Horton > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Steve Parker <st...@pinkrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> I'm not for one second suggesting writing choral music without regard to >> register. I'm suggesting that the conductor who is reading the score is >> unlikely to stop the audience singalong and demand that they sing in the >> flute register. >> It's a singalong for goodness' sake! >> Everyone will sing along where it falls naturally for them. >> >> I still also thing it quite odd to introduce a spare staff for 'audience' >> above an instrumental line that carries it. >> It is no clearer, just more pretentious. >> >> If resting players are supposed to sing I would write it properly in their >> parts (perhaps 3/4 size) in concert, treble clef. >> Given that most orchestras contain a male somewhere, this would also not >> be in the correct register. I doubt that they will be strict in following >> the written octave.. >> If they are, give them a mic! >> >> Steve P. >> >> On 19 Feb 2012, at 01:35, Raymond Horton <horton.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I disagree wholeheartedly with: >>> >>> 'the register doesn't matter' >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
