So engraving is just sort of the more 'professional' presentation of sheet music. Like transcription is the act of writing out some music, but it doesn't indicate any sort of standard - lawd knows I've got tons of shorthand transcriptions I've done by hand that just serve to remind me what to play, but might not be super helpful if someone else were to try and sight read it. Left over term from when they had to engrave/chisel sheet music into metal plates for block printing.
In this case, since the choir will only be punching in specific sections of long meandering prog songs, I need to not just A.) write out the parts and set up divisi and voice leading that is manageable and readable by a halfway decent choir with not much rehearsal time, but also B.) need to include enough cues and time stamps so that when they jump around from spot to spot when recording, they can quickly figure out what to listen for to grab their pitches and not get lost in the sauce.
(trying out an embed, pardon me if this doesn't work I am an absolute baby, not used to working in such feature rich platforms).
hopefully this shows timestamp, sort of aggregate cues before the voices enter, then the layering of the voices (SATB with splits for S1 and S2, B1 and B2). Still need to go through and add lyrics, phrase markings, and breaths. Also want to make all the cue staves smaller so it's more obvious which are the Actual Choir Parts™ vs the cues.
Ahh, okay! Thanks for explaining. Sounds pretty tedious but potentially satisfying!
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So engraving is just sort of the more 'professional' presentation of sheet music. Like transcription is the act of writing out some music, but it doesn't indicate any sort of standard - lawd knows I've got tons of shorthand transcriptions I've done by hand that just serve to remind me what to play, but might not be super helpful if someone else were to try and sight read it. Left over term from when they had to engrave/chisel sheet music into metal plates for block printing.
In this case, since the choir will only be punching in specific sections of long meandering prog songs, I need to not just A.) write out the parts and set up divisi and voice leading that is manageable and readable by a halfway decent choir with not much rehearsal time, but also B.) need to include enough cues and time stamps so that when they jump around from spot to spot when recording, they can quickly figure out what to listen for to grab their pitches and not get lost in the sauce.
(trying out an embed, pardon me if this doesn't work I am an absolute baby, not used to working in such feature rich platforms).
hopefully this shows timestamp, sort of aggregate cues before the voices enter, then the layering of the voices (SATB with splits for S1 and S2, B1 and B2). Still need to go through and add lyrics, phrase markings, and breaths. Also want to make all the cue staves smaller so it's more obvious which are the Actual Choir Parts™ vs the cues.
Ahh, okay! Thanks for explaining. Sounds pretty tedious but potentially satisfying!
Meta-note: if you uploaded to Imgur solely for the purpose of uploading here, you did too much work. The direct image upload functionality looks and works better!