Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
D. H. Bailey suggests that page turns are a nuisance for performers, hence the very tight spacing you see in a lot of (performing) editions. But the examples David Fention provided were critical study editions (I assume), so I don't think performers are playing from those. And even if they were, I'm sure there is a happy middle ground where the pages are more open in terms of layout, and not have bothersome page turns that annoy performers. Kim Patrick Clow
Critical editions are very often playing editions -- once a scholar does all that research, those editions are copyrighted so you often can't buy a critical study edition and then get the same editorial corrections in a separate playing edition.
But regardless of that issue, I have no problem reading the music in those exemplar pages David Fenton has posted.
But then I'm used to reading Sousa marches printed on quick-step size paper, so tight spacing has never bothered me. :-)
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