At 12:26 PM -0700 11/5/11, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: >Good thoughts John .... as usual. The accordion fold idea is good ... >when it gets to ten or twelve actual pages of music, even that is >pretty cumbersome I think. It appears to me that buying into not >having to fill up every page and shifting systems to the next page as >warranted is going to work the best ... in my case, Cl., and Fl. >really have the most notes to play .... so that's going to be an >interesting process ....
Yes, definitely! But don't forget that both Finale and Sibelius like to leave lots of white space on every staff, while quite a lot of 19th century orchestral engravings--Breitkopf u. Härtel for example--put 12 measures per line and think nothing of it. I always try to judge by eye rather than accepting the defaults automatically. This is especially important for pianists to remember, since piano scores are almost always spread out much more than orchestral parts. I also judge each project on its own, and change my formatting of parts as seems to work best in each case, even when it ends up differently for different parts. In my case, at least, I'm not preparing for publication, to some publisher's criteria, but to make the music readable by my own players. 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
