At 4:53 PM -0400 6/6/10, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sun Jun 6, at SundayJun 6 4:42 PM, John Howell wrote:
Actually I can't find that in Roemer, at least not in Chapter 6.
Look in Chapter 15. He says to rewrite the pattern on each new
system, so the eye doesn't have to jump back a line.
Ah, I found it, but in Chapter 13: Editing. My edition (which I
inherited) may be an earlier one. It's copyrighted 1973.
And he writes it in the context of having no more than 8 bars per
line for commercial copying, a restriction less restrictive than the
old union requirement of only 4 bars per line, but obviously one that
19th century engravers had never heard of!
I much prefer to have a complete phrase, between two structural
rehearsal letters, on a line, if it fits without crowding. I've long
done that with drum parts, giving instructions like "Play 24 bars
same," which in a way speaks to Dennis's question. Guitar and
keyboard parts I lay out by eye, not by number of bars, because the
chord symbols have to be readable.
John
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