Owain Sutton wrote:
I've got something of a dilemma with a piece I'm working on. The four movements are drastically different from one another: the first is a small orchestra (about 10 staves). The second is for a heavily-divided string section (a la Xenakis & Ligeti) that, by itself, would justify an oversized score. The third is a solo trumpet, and the fourth for percussion.
Obviously, there'd normally be no reason to change the system size or other aspects of overall layout for different movements. But with this piece, I'm going to have to. The trumpet and percussion movements look ludicrous when using settings that would be ideal for the string movement. And there's a limit of how much I can change the latter.
I'm wondering what people think about how much liberty from convention can be taken in such a situation, and where the inevitable compromises should come? My feeling is that I'd like to make the trumpet part seem as similar to the string movement as possible, while remaining 'logical-looking' in isolation. Part of me, however, wants to say "well, they're so different you can't make them alike", and do the trumpet & percussion parts as I would treat them if they were independent pieces.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for advice on -- Why not make them independent files, if that's what you're after?
Personally, I'd make it one large file, with all staves defined as I want them, and them simply optimize out the ones that aren't necessary for the various movements.
What "liberty from convention" are you asking about? What convention?
Maybe more specific questions could provide more specific answers.
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