Re: Orchestral tempo markings

[David Rogers]

Paul Scott wrote:

>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.

I have used the following method - I hope it's not too ugly:

On parts whose marking should also appear in the full score, I put:
__________________________________________

r1^\markup {\hspace #0.1 \translate #(cons -3 1.1) \bold {"Allegro ma
non troppo"}}
__________________________________________




and on the other parts, I put:
__________________________________________

r1-\tag #'INSTRUMENT ^\markup {\hspace #0.1 \translate #(cons -3 1.1)
\bold {"Allegro ma non troppo"}}
__________________________________________



(where INSTRUMENT is the individual name you assign to the part in
question, so it will be different every time)






Then, at the beginning of the \score block in each of the instrumental
parts, add the statement

__________________________________________

\keepWithTag #'INSTRUMENT
__________________________________________

again, substituting whatever name you've tagged this instrument with.




Notes:
1. The numbers after "cons" adjust the position of the marking - the
"Allegro ma non troppo" in my example is moved 3 spaces to the left and
1.1 spaces up.

2. the "\hspace #0.1" is only a dummy entry to give the "\translate"
command something to measure from.







I hope this message wasn't filled with mistakes - I don't really feel
like I know what I'm doing yet.

David