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Re: Orchestral tempo markings


From: Paul Scott
Subject: Re: Orchestral tempo markings
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:03:02 -0700
User-agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116)

Graham Percival wrote:


On 27-Mar-05, at 5:37 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:

I'm transcribing a 15 part orchestral piece, and we've come to the point
of putting in tempo markings.  After doing it the obvious way for a few
parts (r1^\allegroMaNonTroppo), I decided it might be better to create a
"mock staff" everywhere we want the tempo markings, and just write them
once.  That would easily solve the problem that we only want the
markings on the top of the conductor's score, not on every part.
However, when I look at the piano part for which I've done this, it is
far too spaced out (three systems per page).  Is there a way I can do
this?  Is there another standard technique for tempo markings?


Have you tried using \mark ? If you use \mark "Allegro ma non Troppo" in every piece, then it will be printed on all the parts, but it will only be
printed once in the score.

The default position is centered which makes this useless especially if a long marking occurs at the beginning of the piece. right-align or left-align don't seem to help. There is probably a solution if one reaches deeper into the definition of \mark but do you have an easier one? Again if not this is not a solution but the concept is great and needs a solution.

Paul Scott





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