Hi Daniel, Am 31.03.20 um 01:58 schrieb Daniel Rosen:
I just sent the following question in an email to my local orchestra's[1] music director[2]-he has a side gig with a small opera company a few towns over[3]
:-)
I am in the midst of engraving a full opera score, and my question is this: do you as a conductor prefer to see the vocal parts above the strings, or within the strings (between the violas and cellos)? Elaine Gould's Behind Bars (generally accepted as the definitive reference work on music notation) prescribes the former for mixed-forces works in general, but is silent about opera scores specifically; and most of the random sampling of scores that I've looked at on IMSLP have the latter.
The opera conductors I asked agree that they prefer the vocal parts above the strings.
Best Lukas
