At 9:15 PM -0700 10/20/06, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 9:30 AM, John Howell wrote:
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.
Not sure what you mean by "standard piano-vocal". In my opinion the
bulk of piano-vocal music printed in the past 20 years or so is
unattractively loose.
I wasn't thinking of pop music as much as standard editions of
Lieder. But for solo classical piano literature the rule seems to be
3 or 4 measures per system. By "loose" I assume you mean spread out.
John
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