I have the conductor score of a fairly long piece showing bar numbers for every bar, and the individual parts for players showing bar numbers every 4 bars. Everyone is happy with that granularity. However, I’d like to also have rehearsal marks along the way. Is it possible to define a sequence for Rehearsal Marks so that, for example, Dorico could automatically crean one occur every 10 bars (with the Engrave mode “Sequence Type” set to “Bar Numbers”) <> having to manually put each rehearsal mark in via Shift-A. I can’t find anything in the documentation of on-line videos about whether this is possible.
You could very well have a good reason for wanting rehearsal marks every 10 bars (you probably do, I hope), but I am happy that automating that isn’t possible. The (published!) examples I’ve seen of that have been infuriating. (When playing trumpet in a symphony orchestra, having the rehearsal markers illogically placed in long sections of multimeasure rests uses up so much more energy compared to when when they’re logically placed.)
To add on to Rikard’s comment, as a long-time orchestral player, rehearsal marks placed every 10 bars (as I recall, Boosey & Hawkes was notorious for that) rather than at appropriate musical milestones or sections, is maddening! On top of that, conductors always want to start at those musical milestones/sections, so they have to say something like, “Let’s start 3 bars before 210.” Invariably, someone miscounts and we have to start again. Put the rehearsal marks where they make music sense, not by some artificial, numerical construct.
Well, I’m not sure how “valid” my reason is (and my personal experience is exactly that of wanting to see Rehearsal Marks in “musically sensible” positions), but the music is for a competition for the group performing it, and the judges have requested that they have a score with “rehearsal marks” every 10 bars. I’m going to generate a custom layout for them with enlarged bar numbers positioned above the bars and sequenced every 10 bars. That should mollify them.
