Re: Orchestral tempo markings

[Luke Palmer]

Graham Percival writes:
> 
> 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.

Ahh, that's pretty cool.  However, I solved what I was trying to do,
putting it in a separate track, by RTFMing a bit more and learning how
to write context types.  It's quite nice, now we have one file that
shows the position of all the tempo markings, and we don't have to worry
about it in the other parts.  Lilypond even does the right thing across
multi-measure rests.  Go it!

Luke