On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:43 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
[ answering David Bailey ]
Most published editions don't have their
final line end anywhere other than flush against the right margin.
I have always wondered what is the reason for this. To me, if the
last
line is shorter, it is helpful to show it's the end at a glance. [...]
I too wonder about this tradition. Of course I realize it's
standard, and whenever I'm engraving for a mainstream publisher I'll
follow the convention. But for my own work, I'm perfectly happy to
let the last system of a piece come out justified only on the left --
especially if it's a short piece in which stretching or squeezing to
justify the final system would otherwise compromise the layout
aesthetically.
I feel the same way about the convention that says a song should end
at the bottom of a page. This can be a serious problem when a short
song's natural length is about one and a third pages, so that extreme
stretching or squeezing is required.
mdl
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