Re: unsettling divisi lyrics

[dadadharma @dslextreme.com]

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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