That's true, BUT I would urge caution. It has always been so easy to shrink the staves in Finale to get more on a page that there are a great many publications--including a lot of them from Hal Leonard--which are VERY hard to read for those of us with older eyes. The folks at MOLA recommend staves between 7 and 8 mm, because that's what their orchestra members tell them they want to see. Back when I was using Mosaic I used 20 or 22 points for parts. Of course it's also possible to have the staves TOO large, and I ran into one like that only this Fall! I can't help thinking that some engravers are not actually working musicians who have to READ these things.
John At 8:22 PM +0000 11/5/11, Steve Parker wrote: >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 -- 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
