At 8:56 AM +0100 1/14/10, dc wrote:
Rich Caldwell écrit:
Personally I feel 6 is too much space between
the staves, but if it's standard, whoever is
singing will be used to it. Or should one
repeat the music and have three verses each
time?
How many can you get in without page turns in
the middle of a verse? I think that's the main
question.
Dennis
Hymnal designers have to reconcile competing
needs: (1) Save pages!!! (2) Keep hymns to one
page or to facing pages whenever possible; page
turns during a procession are awkward.
(Therefore duplicating the music just to have
fewer verses between staves goes against BOTH
those needs.) (3) Make them readable; in fact
make them SIGHTreadable.
I used to be jealous of the kids in my wife's
youth choir because they could memorize the
melody once through, and then follow the lyrics
wherever they were printed for the other verses.
If you're singing a harmony part (and if you're
older and have a less-quick mind!) you go
crosseyed trying to keep one eye on your part and
the other on verses 5 & 6 at the bottom of the
next page! But 6 verses between staves makes it
hard for the women to read verses 5 & 6 and hard
for the men to read verses 1 & 2.
Given all that, I'd prefer to read from 6 verses
between staves than to have verses 5 & 6 at the
bottom of EITHER page! Organists or pianists may
have different priorities.
But as for a "standard" approach, I doubt that there is one.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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