On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 10:07 PM Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@mailbox.org>
wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> For an eight bar intro you would normally leave the vocal line staff and
> use full bar rests. This actually makes it easier for the vocalist, and
> if you were making parts you would have to do this anyway. I would not
> try to hide the intro staff in this case.
>
I'm merely transcribing what I see on paper as accurately as I can. Since
it didn't show any vocal line until the ninth measure (immediately after a
break) it seemed like the "right" thing to do.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\new Staff \with {
\RemoveAllEmptyStaves
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
did the trick (along with the afore-mentioned "\bar" and "\break' at the
end of the "short" measure at the end of the piano "solo" introduction and
before the partial measure where the voice starts.
Frenched usually refers to omitting whole empty systems and is used to
> make symphonic scores more compact. Just omitting a staff for a few bars
> is not generally thought of as Frenching, technically speaking.
>
Someone else brought up "French". I'd never heard of it til it was
mentioned in a response but it's good to know the terms, even if I'm not
doing symphonic stuff, just simple folk melodies and occasionally acoustic
rock.
