I'm not sure if this is the exact situation Noel is describing, but if you have a situation where verse 1 has one syllable on a quarter note and verse 2 has two syllables on repeated eighth notes on the same pitch, I would NOT write it as two eighths with a dotted tie. I would write it as a quarter note upstem and then in a second voice have the two eighth notes downstem and reduced. (Or if it's two syllables in the first verse and one syllable in the second, then the eighth notes are upstem and full size while the quarter note is downstem reduced.)
I wouldn't say the dotted tie version is "wrong", but it's not how I would do it. mdl On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Dennis, > > Regarding your question, >> 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? > > I'm not prepared to call it "standard", but my customary method of > dealing with the situation you describe is to prepare the notation for > the greatest number of syllables, and use a dotted slur (or more rarely > a dotted tie) to indicate the notes that are sung together on a single > syllable in some instances. I have seen others use a notation such as s. > 3 (for stanza 3) to indicate to which stanzas the multiple notes apply, > but I don't personally use this device. > > ns > >> Thanks, >> >> Dennis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
