Mark,
I was also *not allowed* to flag obvious mistakes for the editor's attention. For example, there would be sections where the song had modulated but the original engraver forgot to transpose the chord symbols. Or there would be guitar frames that were completely at odds with the actual chord. They didn't want to hear about any of it -- my orders were to just make the electronic version look more or less like the printed sheet music (except formatted for 8.5x11) so we can put it out on the internet for people to buy.
- Darcy
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On 21 Jun, 2004, at 08:51 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jun 21, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Having cranked out piano-vocal-guitar pop tunes for a certain major publisher, using Sibelius (which, at the time, could not be told to ignore lyrics when spacing), I concur. Speed is the only thing that matters. So long as there are no actual collisions, they'll take anything, so long as you're fast and cheap.
That explains a lot. I've seen some god-awful spacing in recent pop-song anthologies, and the biggest publishers seem to be the worst.
They also don't seem to be too careful about syllables lined up with the wrong note either. I've seen some blatant errors in that respect.
mdl
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