On Jun 23, 2004, at 6:38 AM, Allen Fisher wrote:
This is how my primary client works. He expects me to take his very bad
chicken scratch scores and turn them into something others can read easily.
He doesn't care how it is done. He trusts me to make descisions on layout
and beaming.
Yep, that sounds familiar. With one of my clients it goes farther than that. Sometimes the notes she writes down don't add up right, or if they do I can tell it's not really what she wants. Occasionally if a passage seems wrong to me I'll call her up on the phone and say, "play this page for me", and she'll play it at the piano. I say "yup, I thought so," and proceed to type up what she *meant* to write, which is not quite the same as what's on the manuscript.
She loves that I do this, and I sense that if she had her way she'd rather not have to handwrite at all. As it is, we frequently take shortcuts. For example, she might write out a passage once and then say, "now repeat this section, but with this, this and this changed" according to some specified pattern.
I'm really more her editor than her engraver, but that's what some composers want.
mdl
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