On Nov 28, 2004, at 7:58 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I don't know where or why it started, but it's like force-justifying the
end line of paragraphs or making sure novels fill up the last page.
Preventing the musical equivalent of widows & orphans helps reading (and
sometimes economics), but is there any practical reason to keep on with the
full-line fill? Are there complaints that score reading is interfered with?
Personally, I don't like this tradition. I think it looks fine to make the last system of a piece (or section) "flush-left". I also think it looks fine to have the last page of a piece not fill to the bottom of the page.
On my own stuff, I'll often allow this to happen. On anything I do for professional publication of course I always fill out the systems and the pages because, like it or not, that's the standard.
Obviously you aren't going to end a piece with one measure on the last page, just as you wouldn't end a chapter in a book with one word on the last page, but that doesn't mean you have to force-justify everything. Dennis's comparison to paragraphs is exactly on point, I think.
mdl
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