Reproducing Violin Recitative in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

[Dmitriy_Kuznetsov]

Hello Dorico fellows! As a part of my mastering Dorico process I’ve started reproducing Scheherazade by Nikolay Rimkiy-Korsakov. And stuck on the 2-nd page trying to reproduce Recitativo and cadenza of Violin I solo (see screenshot). It is 5/4 and last bar in Cadenza 8/4 while time signature in both violin and harp parts is 4/4. Is there a way to make the score look like on the example? Thank you in advance for your helping advices.

[asherber]

The first 3 bars of the violin are just in 4/4. For the last bar, you can use a 8:4q tuplet, with the other tuplets nested inside – and then hide the bracket and number on the outer tuplet.

[hrnbouma]

In this old-fashioned engraving, not all triplets are shown. You’ll need two nested levels of triplets, like this:

The last bar is a large 8:4q tuplet, with all notes scaled to Cue size. Of course you can then hide all the tuplet brackets that you don’t need.