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Re: Horizontal spacing - choir
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Carl-Henrik Buschmann |
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Re: Horizontal spacing - choir |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:40:39 +0100 |
Thank you for the heads up. Will revise the dynamics, slurs and phrasings.
Fonts. I’ve tried looking in the manual but i shoot blanks: how do i change the
font and font size of the lyrics?
> 14. feb. 2016 kl. 15.44 skrev Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
>> I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves
>> around horizontal spacing.
>>
>> http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2
>>
>> I feel it is a bit cramped and the breaks do not flow naturally.
>
> I don’t think it’s cramped – well, I like ‘cramped’ old Peters editions, so
> that may be anachronistic and personal taste.
>
>> What can i do to improve?
>
> Choose a narrower text font – I like and often use Alegreya from
> fontsquirrel.org. I’d not advise using a smaller text font, since it gives an
> ill proportion between text and music size. However I find it perfectly
> alright to use a fontsize of 16 for choral scores. It will remain well
> legible.
>
> What’s more, (well-made) choral scores _always_ print dynamics above the
> staff to not have them on the same side like the lyrics. There’s a number of
> cases in your example where I’d also move slurs and ties, maybe even scripts
> above the staff. But that’s a matter of style as well.
>
> And I’d suggest to always use proper lyric hyphens, since the misaligned
> syllables at the end of bars 19 and 39 are confusing. You can avoid creating
> a melisma with the slur by either removing slurMelismaBusy from
> melismaBusyProperties or using phrasing slurs { \( \) }.
>
> HTH, Simon
- Horizontal spacing - choir, Carl-Henrik Buschmann, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Noeck, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Simon Albrecht, 2016/02/14
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- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Phil Holmes, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Noeck, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Carl-Henrik Buschmann, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Simon Albrecht, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Carl-Henrik Buschmann, 2016/02/14
- Re: Horizontal spacing - choir, Noeck, 2016/02/14