Re: Orchestral tempo markings

[Karl Hammar]

> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham

It won't work if you already is using \mark for rehearsal marks.
The naive solution:

\mark #22
\mark "Echo Dance of Furies"

doesn't work.

I would be nice if I could define a few staffs as a group, and be
able to assosiate/align something with the top visible staff of that
group, whichever staff it is (or the lowest). (Or be able to align
it to the nearest bar line, start/end of staff.)

Something in my thinking is \mark, \markup, volta brackets,
extressive marks and bar numbers.

Regards,
/Karl