At 12:34 PM -0500 9/17/11, Steve Larsen wrote: > >My own practice is to use the 8va sign in scores when necessary, but to >restore the part to its proper octave when extracting.
And that just makes good sense. And save space in the score, where things are more crowded already. Another pet peeve is engravers who switch viola parts to treble clef for just a few notes, when it's entirely unnecessary. C'mon, folks, give us a LITTLE credit for being able to read the music written for our own instruments! Don't obsess over ledger lines if ledger lines are "normal" for a given instrument. There IS no "rule" for how many ledger lines are acceptable, but there is definitely an average that is different from one instrument to another. And at our last string rehearsal I found one passage that sounded like garbage was actually an engraver's error, where for about 4 bars he had entered the notes as if in treble clef instead of alto but hadn't marked a clef change. It happens! John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
