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.
That's because they're not run by musicians anymore, but increasingly by accountants and lawyers.
I have seen the most awful page turns coming through in band music, where the person who engraved it left the percentage of the music at 100%, forcing a work onto 5 pages (printed on tri-fold paper)! Try using that outdoors at a band concert!
With simple reduction to 80% and removal of tons of extraneous white space between staves such parts could easily be placed on 3 pages.
More and more page turns in parts for instruments which need both hands to play are placed where there isn't a rest at the turn, but 8 bars earlier or later there's a nice huge rest.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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