[Menvi-discuss] SATB transcription questions

Sat Feb 9 18:24:15 UTC 2013

Hello,
As few things between each note and the text is best. I must have measure numbers, always, never a time without measure numbers. If you have measure numbers nothing else matters. I don’t need to know when the page changes. Knowing that page 60 to 63 is on that page is nice, but I don’t really need to know if I have measure numbers.
If for some reason measure numbers aren’t possible, Each page tern needs to be on its own line, each rehearsal marking needs to be on its own line. I hate trying to scan through the music lines, looking for the page terns.

I haven’t formed an opinion about queues yet, I’ve never had them. But perhaps a measure may be nice, put in parenthesis. Or the piano part. It is not that important though as it is faster to hear the people next to us start and just memorize it.
Just say “repeat the word 10000 times” and keep the music going. As little interruption between the music as possible. There should be a mark though, letting me know when the music is on the next line or if there is a word line on the next line.

Long notes are most important. Try to end on a rest though if there is a choice. I need time to find my way to the next part of the line. But don’t worry about the lyrics, we hardly read them anyways, or when we do we are just looking for the next word, not where it is.
Another thing, put D, C, R, but:
poco rit, e dim
is just way to much for a line. I personally would like those put as a footnote.
Also, I love measure numbers before the music under the lyrics if there are measure numbers. This makes it easy to read without the annoyance of finding where the translation or lyrics end and where the music starts again.
I also don’t like it when the words go onto more than one line, That breaks my flow and gets me more lost than if I find myself on the wrong page.
Is there any way where we can let Bana know what works about the official format and what doesn’t?
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

From: Tina Davidson 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:31 AM
To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org 
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] SATB transcription questions

Hi Everyone,

As a transcriber, I have a few questions for braille choral music readers on the list, pertaining to the way the music is laid out for ease of memorization. The questions are about your individual parts in a SATB chorus. Your answers might depend on whether or not you use your braille during rehearsals or always memorize everything before rehearsals.

1) Are cues helpful? Let’s say you don’t come in for more than 10 measures and you follow the Tenors. Would it help to know, within the transcription,  what the Tenors are singing in one or two bars before you enter? 

2) Suppose you are singing a “Kyrie Eleison” and these words are repeated a zillion times. Do you prefer to have the music divided frequently, showing one “Kyrie Eleison” at a time (which could be 5-10 measures), or do you prefer to have the braille condensed a bit more by showing two or three “Kyrie Eleisons” and several lines of music that run over?

3) Other text: do you prefer to have the lyrics presented in a full sentence or stanza (usually ending with a comma or period and end-of-thought). Or do you prefer to have the text line end with a word that is the end of a full measure—while still trying to avoid any split words and hyphens?

4) Do you care if page turn indications are approximate (not interrupting a tied note or the completion of the text) or do you prefer the exact location of a page turn, even if it’s in the middle of a phrase? Obviously, if there are rehearsal numbers or letters, the page turns won’t be that critical to your memorization.

I appreciate your feedback and please feel free to share your answer with the group or send me your opinions privately to tinatd at comcast.net

Tina

www.ctdcreations.com

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