In line with what John is saying, sometimes reducing the system size by a couple of percent will get you out of trouble.
Steve P. On 5 Nov 2011, at 20:03, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
