At 9:24 PM -0400 7/31/07, Lora Crighton wrote:
--- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 29 Jul 2007 at 9:29, Christopher Smith wrote:
> The largest choral parts I have
> ever seen are 8.5 x 11
Commercially printed choral music is always octavo
size, which is, of
course, smaller than 8.5 x 11.
That didn't seem right, so I checked - I actually own
several pieces commercially printed choral music that
is letter size, and one that is a strange (to me)
size, being a bit taller & a bit narrower than letter.
Most of my scores are early music, so perhaps that
makes a difference?
Unusual to find commercially printed letter size, but not surprising
these days. The taller and narrower pages you describe are almost
certainly A4 size, the European equivalent of letter size. I am not
writing for publication, but for immediate use, and I use U.S. letter
size exclusively because all U.S. business machines are set up to
handle that size quickly and painlessly.
(We have a rather large population of international students, and
every once in a while a student will turn in written work formatted
for A4 as an electronic file. Our department's printer is smart
enough to recognize the difference and to wait for A4 paper, which of
course we don't have, with the result that that one file holds up the
queue waiting to be printed until someone notices and tells it to
print anyway!!)
John
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