I would have to agree with John that list is very educational, and has forced me to pay more attention to a lot of details that I normally would have overlooked. Although I do not use Finale for external publishing work, I find that taking the time to make the score look good and be easy to sight-read has reaped many rewards. I'd like to take a little time to thank all of you for your valuable thoughts, insights, discussions, and arguments. I appreciate them all.
I am surprised when I look at work coming out of supposedly professional publishing houses (choral music is what I work with mostly) where the page turns are atrocious, and what is apparently a desire to save paper or printing costs - some of the most confusing repeats (and repeats within repeats) I have ever seen. There is also a fair amount of scoring SATB as SA and TB where it really ought to be split into 4 staves. *sigh* Hope you holiday music hasn't been as hard to read ... ----- Original Message ----- From: John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:23 am Subject: [Finale] The state of the art: a report from the trenches > Finally just finished a grueling holiday season of performances > with > 4 different ensembles, including a church gig yesterday. This is > a > Presbyterian church with a Music Minister who leans toward the > Contemporary Christian side, although his judgement of what is > good > and what is dreck is quite good. Our music was, let's say, > typical > of the average state of the art, as opposed to the best work by > the > best engravers. Some observations: <snip> [lots of keen and really interesting observations] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
