Re: unsettling divisi lyrics

[Shane Brandes]

\phrasingSlurDotted

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:41 PM, dadadharma @dslextreme.com
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Shane Brandes suggests
>
>>Have you tried using the phrasing slur command  a \( b c d \) ?
>
> Yes, but that's a full slur, not a dashed slur.
>
>>a sort of choose
>>your own adventure
>
> Adventures are good for soloists.
>
> With a large number of singers at a social event, i.e., who have never
> met before, and are not rehearsing, but singing each carol once
> through, trying to sing as many carols as possible, it's good to use
> explicit indicators like dashed slurs.
>
> Well, I have eleven months to figure this out...
>
> David Olson
>
>
> On 1/21/14, Shane Brandes <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Have you tried using the phrasing slur command  a \( b c d \) ? I am
>> not sure but it seems you want two simultaneous slurs a sort of choose
>> your own adventure based on the needs of the lyrics?
>>
>> Shane
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:56 PM, dadadharma @dslextreme.com
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have been unsuccessful in ending the dashed slur for divisi lyrics.
>>>
>>> This is the melody for "Silent Night".
>>> The English translation of the third stanza is ametrical and so the
>>> dashes slur is needed,
>>> but this is followed by two melismatic phrases at the end that need solid
>>> slurs.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> David Olson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         f8.( g16) f8 d4. \bar "||"
>>>         f8.( g16) f8 d4. \bar "||"
>>>         c'4 c8 a4. bes4 bes8 f4. \bar "||"
>>>         g4 g8 bes( a) g f8. g16 f8 d4. \bar "||"
>>>         g4 g8
>>>
>>> \set melismaBusyProperties = #'()
>>>         \slurDashed
>>>                 bes8.( a16) g8 f8.( g16) f8 d4. \bar "||"
>>> \unset melismaBusyProperties
>>>
>>>         c'4 c8 ees8. c16 a8 bes4.( d) \bar "||"
>>>         bes8( f) d f8. ees16 c8 bes4. ~ bes \bar "||"
>>>
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