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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by lawrroc -
Sorry, two almost identical messages on the same topic!  ::)  :-[
I apologize to the generous Flurmy and thank HMM.
Lorenzo
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by lawrroc -
Good morning,
My mentor Flurmy suggested I show in a complete or partial NWC file what I mean by "synalepha." I'm taking advantage of the graphic symbol Richard suggested to submit a song in which this symbol is used recurringly. With this submission, I thank everyone, Richard first and foremost, and I close the discussion.
Happy Sunday.

Lorenzo
PS: For translation, please contact Flurmy. It's "stuff" from his homeland! :D
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Avant-garde / Re: Windows Copilot may help faster than searcing the forums for help .
Last post by David Palmquist -
Thanks, everyone. 

I think this was a song I scanned/sharpeyed/exported to musicxml/used Niversoft's musicxml to nwctxt and finally to nwc. 

It was 5 parts in concert pitch to be transposed for sax quintet - AATTB- with extra transpositions for soprano to cover an alto part and bass sax to cover bari.

I wanted the chord changes on each part in case anyone in the ensemble is brave enough to improvise.

I just wanted  a quick and easy way to allow the chords on each staff to agree with the key of the instrument.  Using the lyrics line was all I needed since there are no words to consider. While there are user tools to tweak the chord symbols, I was a little rusty and didn't have time to learn these user tools.  One day I'll try them.  The robot just made the conversion very fast. 



It was five parts in concert pitch, with parts 4 and 5 in bass clef.  It was simple enough to convert the bass clef systems to treble clef, then transpose all the parts for Bb and Eb instruements.  The tenor sax parts have an extra octave , and the bari sax and its alternate bass sax part get yet an extra octave. 
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by lawrroc -
My mentor Flurmy advised me to show my work.
Here are the three pieces mentioned in the previous message.
Have a good time, everyone.
Lorenzo
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by lawrroc -
Good morning,
While I wait for some computer scientist on the forum to share their ingenuity in creating the "synalefe" object, I'm updating my tests. The best results are obtained with the text ("x" ---> "horizontal round bracket" pointing upwards). I use the Staff Italic font - Times New Roman, Bold Italic (12.5) and set the percentage to the best (80% or 90%). The font is several screens down, but once you find it and insert it in the first place, you can copy and paste it, as I mentioned. I also discovered that to further separate the two syllables, just add a second underscore to the text. Excellent!
You might be wondering why I'm spending so much time on this aspect, which is purely graphical.
In the Italian language, almost all words end with a vowel, and so sometimes, for metrical reasons, in a sung text, the last syllable of the first word and the first syllable of the second are joined. This union is indicated by the "synalephe" sign.
Some examples from the poem:
Ce-le-e-ste_A-i-da...
Di Pro-ven-za_il mar, il suol...
Quan-do men vo, quan-do men vo so-let-ta per la via,
la gen-te so-sta_e mi-ra...

And now, as a pastor said at the end of a three-quarters of an hour sermon, I'll finish so as not to tire you.  :D
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by lawrroc -
The solution proposed by Richard is the most practical. You need to find among the various formats (fonts) one in which the "horizontal bracket" character has a curvature that's neither too pronounced nor too open. Then, once the first one is inserted... copy/paste and you're done. The technical solution (object), if implemented, would be automatic, so it's preferable. Thanks.
Lorenzo
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Synalephe
Last post by Mike Shawaluk -
Quote from: Richard Woodroffe –
Why not just have it as part of the lyrics  so that the lyrics would say
"Ar-ri-va‿un gril-lo, che‿è mol-to‿ar-zil-lo,"

Unless of course, you need the "synalephe"   to be a different colour.

R.
I was about to make the same observation, but you beat me to it.  :)

But then I looked at some Spanish sheet music that I have, which makes use of this marking frequently, and I noticed that there seems to be a preference for having the arc slightly overlap the two vowels, with just a single word space between.  And then it occurred to me: I bet it would be possible to have a user object that applied these marks whenever it found a _ character in the middle of a lyric. In fact, I bet that Melismatic.nw could be updated/enhanced to optionally perform this function, via a new option.

Any takers?