Hello,
I have a percussion part in a larger piece that is only playing for a few measures in the middle. These rests are also across many rehearsal marks as well, my hope for the part score is to have a tacet (if keeping true to the publication, notated as “tacet bis” as well) before and after the notes that won’t be broken up by rehearsal marks. Is that possible?
How would the player know when to enter if your score/part did not the player see the music (or even the empty measures) to count the beats until it was time to play? Normally TACET is used for entire movements where the divisions are clear.
the idea would be to denote tacet |—| (Rehearsal Mark) → NOTES → tacet |----| (along those lines)
Timpani and Percussion.pdf (2.3 MB)
See the attached file by R. Strauss - Alpine Symphony, look at page 7 referencing rehearsal mark 56, then at the end of that part on page 8, the other tacet.
I came across the traditional way they notate tacet (as you mentioned a part not playing across a whole movement – or flow in the case of Dorico), though that feature would be great for reducing the part score and would like to emulate that way of engraving.
If denoted as a multi-bar rest to be more technically correct, I would be running into the following issue and it’s wasting ink / space unnecessarily (see screenshot)
