At 7:50 AM +0200 10/16/06, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 16.10.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
It would be nice, though, if some professional engraving standards
were somehow built into Finale so that it could tell you if you've
exceeded standard modern engraving density.
I don't think there is such a thing. I have a Henle part here, where
one page is extremely tightly spaced, tighter than anything I have
ever done...
I think this is another case where good engraving always needs a
good eye, too, and a computer can only go some of the way...
I'm used to reading orchestral music printed from 19th century
plates, where it is quite common to have as many as 12 bars or even
more to a line, and the parts are perfectly readable even by string
players sitting 2 on a stand. (But of course they are laid out line
by line (or page by page) to assure that readability.) On the other
hand, I'm always appalled by how wide the spacing is in standard
piano or piano-vocal editions, making many more page turns than might
strictly be necessary. But that's what pianists are used to. I
suspect that they are equally appalled at my piano parts, which tend
to be much more compressed because of my slight obsession with good
page turns.
John
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