On Nov 1, 2012, at 2:24 PM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > In terms of score (rather than parts), our jazz > writers seem to use them a lot, although I've > never asked them exactly why.
Because it looks like the landscape-oriented bigband manuscript pads people used to use in the hand-copying days, and because of that, most published bigband charts had landscape-oriented scores, and all the bigband templates in notation software are also landscape oriented. It also fits well on 16:9 and 16:10 aspect computer screens. Landscape on paper is *awful* though, especially on 8.5"x11" -- it's totally illegible at that reduction. Even at 11"x17" landscape, it's still too small for a full bigband (18-20 staves on every page), and the page turns are ridiculous. I've always used portrait, and have tried to persuade others to use portrait. But old habits die hard. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
