Thanks for all your great advice. Now that I'm actually at the point of laying out the music, I wonder if it's permissible to optimize out the pedal staff if it helps fit music onto the page. Likewise, if there's a long passage for pedal only, can I optimize out the manual staves?
Regarding page turns, if the hands are silent, but the feet are playing, is a page turn permissible if it's the only choice? I'm trying to put page turns over multi-measure rests, but being an organ concerto, there aren't a lot of them once things get going. Oh, if there are systems with nothing but rests, is it permissible to show only one staff so that more systems can fit on a page? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:08 AM, timothy key price < timothy.key.pr...@valley.net> wrote: > Wow, knowing how difficult it is to keep one's place in a normal sized > score, reducing the size to this extent would > make it very difficult for me, beyond just the challenge of the > performance. > Because I seem to need a more normal staff size, I do not usually > reduce music, but equally, I > will copy it so that I can avoid any page turns. Often there are 4 sheets > laid out in order across the organ stand. > Performance is the only thing that is important, so page turns often do > interfere with registration changes. > If the composer or editor wants to make the layout so that one hand is free > for a page turn, perhaps without the need for > a registration change too, that would be nice, particularly for music > organists play only occasionally, not memorized. :-) > But that is asking too much. > > tim > > > On May 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Guy Hayden wrote: > > When I play the Toccatta from Widor's Symphony No. 5 I use a HUGE sheet >> with >> all the pages glued together and greatly reduced in size. No allowance >> was >> made in the engraving, nor is one possible, for page turns or registration >> changes. >> > > timothy key price > timothy.key.pr...@valley.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
