PS - you know what? I'm sorry: I'm making this guy's work much more
complicated than it needs to be. This is really just a song for single
voice and piano; I'll notate it that way and leave it to him to work out
with the performers who sings which verse in which language. Sorry for the
trouble!
A
er/ihn/ihm/sein | he/him/his
Berlin
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> sigh … here we go again. I apologize in advance for my client, a hobbyist
> composer who thinks entirely in terms of cutting and pasting, moving things
> around manually, and not in terms of how to notate anything clearly. Here
> goes:
>
> He has a song for soprano, baritone, and piano. The song has four verses,
> alternating between the two voices (the baritone, weirdly, needs to read a
> treble clef, so I'm using treble_8 for him). However, he wants to repeat
> the entire song (ie, enclose the four verses in a '\repeat volta {}'
> expression), *but* he wants the voices to alternate verses, and the second
> time through to sing the text in English (first time through is in German;
> he's in his "Schubert phase."). He wants both voices on a single line.
>
> So I *could* notate the baritone in the wrong octave and just use the same
> music for both repeats, but that still leaves me the problem of what to do
> with the text. And I don't see a good way to do this without having a lot
> of explanatory text for each verse. This also leaves me the problem of how
> this is supposed to look in the parts.
>
> Do any of you have suggestions for how I might format this so there isn't
> a lot of explanatory text cluttering up the score?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> N. Andrew Walsh, PhD, Dr. phil.
> Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler | Composer, Musicologist
> er/ihn/ihm/sein | he/him/his
> Berlin
>
