Weldon Whipple wrote:
[snip]>
> I don't know how publishers feel about attention paid to page turns, but
> THIS performer noticed them last week!
>
As a community band director who purchases new band works from a variety
of publishers, it seems as if the people who know anything about music
engraving or page layout are completely gone from the two biggies in the
U.S. market -- Hal Leonard and Warner Brothers. I have had to hand out
music that I was embarassed as an engraver to hand out, where some fool
had obviously used Finale, printed at 100% (one I suspect was 110%)
making the part require FIVE pages (printed three across the front and
two across the back, so there weren't so much page TURNS as page FLIPS
-- don't think that isn't noisy and obvious to the audience, to say
nothing about next to impossible in an outdoor setting!). Merely
reducing the part to a very legible 85% or 80% would have allowed the
piece to lie nicely on 3 pages, and would have place rests at the page
turns. And this was on more than one piece!
Only the lawyers and accountants are left in the front offices of the
biggest publishers -- smaller publishers like Southern Music or
Barnhouse or Carl Fischer still have editors who know what printed music
should look like.
But these days the big publishers figure, Heck, if you don't like our
layout, you can simply lump it, or don't play our music. But they know
it isn't available anywhere else so we are caught between a rock and a
hard place. I'm surprised, though, that the accountants haven't figured
out that three pages printed on typical 11x17 or 12x19 paper isn't less
expensive than specialty paper, 11x25.5 or 12x28.5 trifold.
--
David H. Bailey
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