Re: Highlighting staves

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Highlighting staves


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > With Sibelius, you can highlight part or all of a stave.  It's
> > intended as an aid to composition, to highlight where work is needed,
> > but as a singer trying to find my stave amongst (quite often) seven
> > others, I think it's useful.  Is there a way of colouring the
> > background to a stave in Lily?
>
> If you are going to make your own printout anyway, why not make all the
> other staffs significantly smaller?  You can still track the rough
> context, but get more material on the page.


The music I have most difficulty with is typically unaccompanied - often 
early madrigals and the like.  If you get lost, the only way to get going 
again is to find what the other parts are singing and catch up - so being 
able to read their music quickly can still be a requirement.  Also - 
highlighting means the page layout wouldn't change, whereas it would with 
size, and so the MD saying "the bottom of page 2" would get me confused.

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Phil Holmes