Speaking as a violinist and long-time orchestra music librarian (Omaha Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony) I suggest that you do not--repeat, DO NOT--insert bowings in your score unless you're indicating a specific effect, such as a marcato down-bow or a jeté stroke. Your bowings will inevitably be scribbled out by librarians like myself and replaced with the bowings the conductor and the principal string players prefer. Save yourself (and my fellow librarians) a lot of wasted effort by letting the principal string players do their jobs.
Matt Naughtin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:14:19 -0400 > From: Michael Dutka <mikedu...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Finale] Bowing Plug-In? > To: finale@shsu.edu > Message-ID: > <CACeQs3BwjJidGkZ6+k=NLCXFqGfq+=rk6x6l_ovmva2_fsg...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi, folks. Reviewing a fairly large opera score, about 160 minutes of > music, and one thing that would be phenomenally helpful is some kind of > plug-in or app that would let Finale users see every up and down bow, even > when they're not written in. > > The string players I've spoken to don't like it when I write in every > bowing mark, and ask me only to write them in when they're not obvious. But > it's easy for me (as a non-string player) to lose track, and possibly write > in a bad bowing combination, and we all know what working out problems > during rehearsals with live musicians costs. > > Is there any such thing around? Anything one of you brilliant plug-in/app > writers would want to create? I, for one, would pay a lot of money for > something like that, and can't think I'm the only one. > > Just curious. Thanks, > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
