Hello Friends,
I have a psalm tone I’m trying to engrave below. I’d really like to keep this to one page but this pesky last line is getting the better of me. Is there a way to perhaps lower the words “your faithfullness” and "for all generations” to keep everything properly aligned?
I would also welcome any others engraving tips and ideas to make this look better.
Psalm 89 - The Son of David - Solemnity of St Joseph.dorico (1.1 MB)
Psalm 89 - The Son of David - Solemnity of St Joseph REV1.dorico (792.3 KB)
I set the Lyric translation to the same as Lyrics and made these “translations” so they jump to another line.
Psalm 89 - The Son of David - Solemnity of St Joseph REV2.dorico (793.3 KB)
Fixed a couple typos and some little spacing tweaks.
Just FYI, it IS possible to get it all onto one line. I took the first phrase “for you have said…” and using the edit single lyric dialogue, (I’ve set a shortcut for the jump bar: j, el) I decreased the letter spacing to -0.25, and the word spacing to -0.5, then I did a little nudging with the voice columns, and bob’s your uncle.
You can also occasionally push the letter width down to 99 or 98%. All of these tricks in tandem can solve 85% of most cases. I only use two lines if there’s something exceptionally long or a ‘flex’ verse.
As an aside, I think you might be missing some accidentals in the refrain; this piece appears to be modal of some sort, and I doubt you intended the tritones in the refrain which would result without the f naturals:
Thank you!
Thank you for the suggestions James, I will add these to the toolbelt!
You mean you don’t like the sound of the tritones?
I was doing this on my work computer and using my computer keyboard to input which I haven’t done in awhile. I fixed it after uploading along with some poor voice leading decisions.
I think faithfulness usually has only one L.
