Mid-phrase fermata in tacet passage

This is a conundrum I haven’t figured out. Between these rehearsal numbers (they are actually entire phrases, a verse sung by a choir) there is a fermata in the middle of each phrase. Is there a way to collapse the entire span between rehearsal numbers into a single multimeasure rest. In the meantime, I will see what happens if I place a breath mark or caesura in that location. These are all 3/2 bars with a 1 beat anacrucis.

PS I presume I need to make those whole rest measures into explicit half-beat rests under 3 and 4.

Edit: converting to caesura didn’t work

Hi @phase_Shift

I don’t think so, as Multi-bar rests are split by several items (and it make sense, because it is helpful for the players to know where, in this case, the Fermatas are):


Here the Manual:

Thanks. I’ll guess I need to figure out how to solve this bit of immaterial clutter. Those are two tacet passages.

@phase_Shift
This is OT, but maybe you want to consider adding cues to that part (that would eventually of course split the Multi-bar rests even further): the reason for that is if I were sitting as a player and the conductor says: “Let’s begin from Rehearsal Mark #4”, I would have a hard time to know what I would expect to hear on that up-beat… :thinking:

It’s a choral piece, a hymn setting, so it will be pretty obvious, though there are copious opportunities for cues elsewhere. I just want those two phrases stripped - I have run into one of the Dorico brick walls, one of the things it simply refuses to do. But it’s pretty darn good with cue notes. : )

I think the solution here will be to create a fermata playing technique that you can place individually on notes, instead of Dorico’s fermata feature.

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Absolutely right. Here’s the result.