tacet.dorico (1.6 MB)
Correction: tacet al fino al
Create an extended multibars rest marked with tacet al fino, and ensure that after the tacet section the rehearsal mark ‘7’ appears at the following bar.
Why for heaven’s sake do you want to do that?
If the conductor says “we start at figure 4” the castanets player is completety lost.
Rehearsal marks are very very important for orientation in rehearsals.
Or omit the rehearsal marks entirely and the communication base are bar numbers.
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“Tacet al fine” means “nothing else until the end” so showing “tacet al fine” in the middle of the flow, with more music after that section, would be misleading!
That said, I understand the request to “squish” or force a single multi-bar rest that ignores notations that Dorico usually always splits multi-bar rests to show. However, I wouldn’t expect this to change, since such notations really are useful in almost all cases.
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If I write ‘tace al fino,’ would it mean the same? In the middle of the piece there is a long multi‑rest passage, and I need to insert the indication ‘tace al fino.’ After that, a rehearsal number follows. Is there no proper way to notate this?
Even if I hide the time signature, the numbers of the multi‑bar rests still appear all at once. However, in other places the multi‑rest numbers need to remain visible.
Can it be hidden partially?
As a player I would hate it, if I couldn’t see, how many bars rest I have until I play again.
I’m glad Dorico is not offering this!
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You would have to create this as a separate project i think. “Tace al fino” does not make sense though, see Lillie’s answer. You would probably be better off writing “Tacet until 7”, but how would the castanets player know when number 7 comes? Unless you have the multibar rest saying how many bars to wait.
We do not really know the context of what you want to do, maybe it makes perfect sense, but that is why the answers are telling you not to do it.
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Yes there is. It’s what you already have.
This is the proper way and the only thing that makes sense or shows concern for any human player who has to play this at rehearsals and concerts. Besides all that, putting a Tacet al fine in the middle of a piece only to have the music continue after doesn’t make any sense, as “al fine” means “until the end”. Which is either the end of the movement/piece or until a Fine marking which marks, well, the end (and I don’t see one in your screenshot).
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