Martin, what version did you check it on? I have 2008.5. If it works for you but not for me (I did double check), there might be a version difference.

jford, good thinking, I did what you suggested and your work-around does work. I have to go to the last bar and set the melody back to normal. Not sure if that trick will work on an arbitrary chorus, will have to check.

Mac, no I didn't copy the melody to all choruses. This is one of the canned examples, so I didn't want to change it. Besides, the melody does play on all choruses if I don't do anythingm, what I want to do is to mute the melody on arbitrarily chosen choruses.