I don't think it is out of the question to have a larger size of
score for the conductor. Those choral octavos blow up quite nicely to
8.5x11 for a conductor. There is so much preparation going into a
rehearsal that a short visit to the copy machine is no big deal for me.
Since none of my choral music is published (or is likely to be!) I
put it all on 8.5x11 paper at a 12 point fixed font size for lyrics.
It makes the over-50 crowd AND the conductor happy! Sometimes a piece
runs to a lot of pages, but it's by request of the choir, which is
presumably ready to pay the price for larger text.
Christopher
On Wed Jan 13, at WednesdayJan 13 9:57 AM, George Brooke wrote:
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
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Ray Horton
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:44 PM
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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.
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