On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Ryan wrote:
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?
Having no experience with organ concerti, it is easy for me to
respond:-)
As long as it is clearly indicated, and am sure you would do that,
dropping staves over extended numbers of measures seems fine. The
performer will certainly be well rehearsed in performing from the score.
Your concern with page turns is delightful, as they often fall in
difficult
passages in many scores. Unless the pedal passage is very fast,
requiring
great dexterity, balance and accuracy, then having a page turn there
is good,
not a problem, as far as I am concerned.
The same with the single staff for long multimeasure rests; it seems
equally
logical and fine. Be very considerate and cautious as to the cuing for
the organ entrance once it is to resume.
What have you decided as to portrait or landscape orientation?
I also generally prefer landscape and it seems to lend itself well to
the 3 staff systems.
Best wishes,
tim
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 <
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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
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