Need Redundant Measures GONE
So after finally finishing my vocal/piano piece, I was pretty satisfied. I had encountered many obstacles that the software did not allow me to simply avoid, but I pulled through. But then I figured I should cut the piece down with repeats to conserve space, because it did call for it in my music and I simply didn't do it when I was writng.
But what happened was that now, instead of three perfectly fine bracketed staves (Vocal, Treble Piano, and Bass Piano) on the front page, I now have two. Do you know how stupid that looks? It makes half the front page look completely blank, while every other page is completely fine...except for the final page.
At the very end of my piece, I've counted 11 measures filled with rests. These measures are pointless. I tried extending the measures with notes before them to try and "nullify" the blank ones, but it just pushes them onto a whole new page filled with rests.
If you actually had the time to read all of that, thanks. But in summary, how do I fix my front/back page problems?
P.S. If you do look at my piece, keep in mind the repeats are still iffy if you choose to play it.
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Comments
Make the title frame a bis smaller: double-click intoit than use up-arrow a few times
In reply to Make the title frame a bis by Jojo-Schmitz
alternative, try this:
Style / Edit general style;
set "System distance" for example to 7.2.
Select the empty measures;
Edit / Delete Selected Measures (Ctrl + Del).
Select the measures from 68 at the end;
Layout / Add less Stretch.
In reply to @alecinminn by Shoichi
The "System distance" really didn't do anything, but the end is completely resolved now. Thank you for that!
In reply to Half resolved by alecinminn
if all goes well
In reply to Make the title frame a bis by Jojo-Schmitz
That did make more room on the page for another stave, but I can't figure out how to shift everything else up one.
There are several ways to make your score look more rounded and easier to read but here is one way:
1] Get rid of the blank measures...
Go to near the end of the score and click on the first blank measure.
Press [Ctrl][Shift][End] to select all the measures from that point to the end of the score.
Press [Ctrl][Del] to delete the selected measures.
2] Fit a reasonably equal amount on each page...
Select from the Menu: Style -> Edit General Style -> Page
Reduce Music Upper Margin and Music Lower Margin to 6.0sp.
Reduce System Distance to 8.2sp
3] Tidy it up a bit...
Insert a Line Break on measure 74 to make the final page more balanced in appearance.
Personally, I would also delete the "Piano", "Voice", "Pno" and "Vo" tags since they're a bit obvious. I would have the two lines of lyrics closer together (I think you may have accidentally made them too far apart or have tried to manually adjust them). Then I would go through the score and split it into 3, 4, or 5-measure chunks so that it appears more evenly spread out. I would not sabotage appearance just to save a page of paper but I would try to use the final page fully. Lastly, for playback I prefer Flute to Voice so I change this by right-clicking on any measure and selecting Stave Properties, Change Instrument and then I adjust the volume (lower the flute it a bit with respect to the piano) via Display -> Mixer. And another personal foible - please indicate the tempo.
In reply to It's a personal thing but... by underquark
These pointers are very useful. Thanks a lot, I'll try and do what I can to follow them. :)