Indications for the conductor?

Dorico
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Hello, do you have any idea how to put prominent indications on the score for the conductor? Thank you very much!

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I think some people have used a “conductor staff” – essentially just a percussion single line, where there can put time sigs, “house and triangle” sub-divisions, and other text.

“Start conducting now!” :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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thank you for your response. That’s what I’m doing, but I was wondering if there is another possible and interesting option.

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I was wondering if there is another possible and interesting option.

That depends extremely on what ou are trying to achieve. Which sort of indications should appear where?

The page template for the conductor’s score could as well contain fixed text or variable information with tokens.

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You mean like highlighting themes and color coding for entrances? Not really. It’s sorta possible now, but you’ll have issues with the lines showing in the parts as well. It’s probably easier to just markup the PDF score in forScore or something. I still just markup a printed copy by hand.

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Don’t do that.

Conductors are mature enough to make their own decisions about “cautionary indicators”. And each conductor has his own individual scheme and preference what is more important at a specific part of the music.

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I do it for myself by hand with a colored highlighter whenever I need to be sure to cue a specific entrance. I don’t generally mark themes but I know some conductors do.

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I have been using color coding only once in my life, not for a specific entrance, but for time signature changes in one of the most difficult pieces for a conductor in classical repertoire, Le Sacre du Printemps.

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I do it often, but usually closer to the performance as I see what entrances actually really need to be cued. We often open things up for various soloists, have cuts, etc. so I usually wait until things are a bit more settled before marking up scores. (Among other groups, I conduct the “Creative Large Ensemble” at a US university.)

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You see how individual the topic is.
I just don’t want the publisher dictating my remarks. :wink:

And entering the indications yourself helps tremendously to memorize the stuff.

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Thank you all for your answers.
My question is very open, to gather other ideas.
I indicate certain elements in color on the paper version or digitally on an exported PDF, in addition to the conductor line that I inserted at the very top of the conductor score.
Indeed, I don’t want any automatic indications, but some could be interesting. Like Dorico’s suggestions. I wonder if it exists.

Completely agree with you on the value of writing them ourselves.