On Jan 20, 2013, at 9:38 AM, dc wrote: > Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small > variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one > syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. > > What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows the > syllabification? Two stems, one with flags, the other with a beam? Or?
My standard practice goes something like this: - First, I set it up so it looks exactly right for whichever verse is on top. - Then, if another verse would require the notes to look differently, I'll add those notes as on a second layer, as if it's a second instrument on the same staff, and shrink them down to 75%. - Where the only difference is slurring, not notes, then I'll use a dashed slur for any slur which exists in one verse but not another (regardless of which is which). - And if all of this makes the page too cluttered, then that's a clue to me that I should be writing out the verses separately. >From your description, it sounds like maybe you use the traditional style >where beams are broken for separate syllables. I typically use the modern >style where beaming is done as if it were an instrument and doesn't reflect >lyric syllabification. I think the general principles would be the same, but >the traditional style might necessitate more reduced notes. This is just a description of my general approach, not a prescriptive rule that must be followed. The larger goal is clarity, so I'd abandon my "rules" if ever the situation called for it. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
