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Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:59:43 +0100 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>>> "A line of text should be parallel to the stave for the length of
>>> the system, and not be placed on different levels to accommodate
>>> notes below the stave".
>>>
>>> This refers to lyrics.
>>>
>>
>> I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me.
>
> Now you know why different clefs do exist to avoid ledger lines (gosh,
> do your singers create the sound of those notes really with the
> *mouth*?)
I do so not want to hear of any alternatives.
> To be serious: I suggest either an octavation line or really a clef
> change to "bass_8"
Actually, singers don't like such things. It interferes with their
pitch sense.
I think the "Carmina Burana" has some piece for a bass or baritone
falsettist and it is written in $#!! bass clef, with oodles of ledger
lines. No idea how anybody is going to figure out just where in the
scale he is currently singing.
--
David Kastrup