Let me add another wrinkle in that. I routinely conduct from the keyboard (church setting) and get frustrated with the size of the text as well as some of the small notation used in choral octavos (I presume they're trying to cut costs and use less paper). So, as you say, it's either squint & guess or a copy machine session. Often times the trouble is that they have jammed too much text into a line and if you combine that with a small text size it's really fun.
George Brooke -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Horton Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] minimum font size for lyrics in score? Let me expand upon that. Choir octavos are printed so the lyrics can (barely) be read by singers, holding the music a few inches below their face, but the conductor, who has his or her music much father from the eyes, is not included in the equation. Other than xerox-enlarging every single piece that I conduct, which is impractical, mostly I just squint, guess, and smile. Ray Horton wrote: > I agree with you 100%, Mark. > > > Raymond Horton > Minister of Music, > Edwardsville (IN) UMC >> >> >> On the larger question, I am generally of the opinion that lyrics are >> always printed too small. Obviously that rule can't be taken to the >> extreme, but I almost never see lyrics that are bigger than they need >> to be, while I often see lyrics that are smaller than they need to be. >> >> mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
