On 19 Feb 2006 at 13:50, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Thinking about this in more detail, I would add that page turns have > to be at different places in chamber music and orchestral music. > > Eg, in a string quartet it is possible to have a page turn during a GP > (although it does depend on the GP). It is also possible to have a > page turn during a very quiet passage where the turning instrument has > a rest.
The standards for keyboard parts are, of course, completely different, since there's too much music to ever be able to accommodate all the prescriptive rules (which are, of course, quite good in an ideal world). I've done quite a bit of page turning for pianists and had pages turned while playing (turning pages makes me more nervous than actually playing), and I know that it's just impossible to manage, especially in the avoidance of turns in soft passages. It's one of the things I'm extremely sensitive to when turning pages, for instance, by not standing up in preparation for turning while in the middle of a passage where a soloist should be the focus of attention. Of course, the difference is that there are very few pieces for massed pianos. And thank heavens for that. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
