Re: long tacets

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Hi,

2014-06-25 12:35 GMT+02:00 address@hidden <address@hidden>:

I've wondered off and on for some time now if there is, or perhaps, should be, a way to create long tacets without resorting to ugly hacks which don't represent the actual information.

One common example is an ensemble piece in which a particular instrument is finished long enough before the end of the piece that it's silly to write out explicitly all the remaining rests.  In traditionally engraved or handwritten parts one often sees:

|======== Tacet bis Ende =======|

...or something similar.

Another example I've often encountered in French orchestral pieces has something like this at the beginning:

|======== TACET jusqu'à ======|


In both of the above examples there may be key and time changes which are not indicated.

I've started a snippet (unfinished, no time yet) here : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=923

HTH,

Pierre