Re: [Finale] Score Printing Question

2016-03-25 Thread Linda Worsley
This is very useful.  I'm glad there are some using 11x14 because that
would be my preference.  Legal length is a really bad compromise, and
very crowded, especially with full orchestra, and when adding vocal
parts, it becomes almost unusable.

Thanks to all for sharing.

Linda Worsley
Composer/Arranger




On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 5:22 AM, timothy price  wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote:
>
>>  tabloid
>> (11x17) is unwieldy, tends to be floppy on many music stands, and doesn't
>> fit in most briefcases.
>
>
> Thank you Lee for telling us about your preferences.
>
>
> Noticed this section of West Side Story recording session.
>
> Watch, starting at 3:40 as Bernstein takes places his score.
> Kiri Te Kanawa - The Making of West Side Story Documentary
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SEW63LsaM
>
> He probably uses a separate case, as we use for architectural drawings and 
> the like.
>
> tim
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Re: [Finale] Score Printing Question

2016-03-25 Thread timothy price

On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote:

>  tabloid
> (11x17) is unwieldy, tends to be floppy on many music stands, and doesn't
> fit in most briefcases.


Thank you Lee for telling us about your preferences.


Noticed this section of West Side Story recording session.

Watch, starting at 3:40 as Bernstein takes places his score.
Kiri Te Kanawa - The Making of West Side Story Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SEW63LsaM

He probably uses a separate case, as we use for architectural drawings and the 
like.

tim
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Re: [Finale] Score Printing Question

2016-03-25 Thread Lee Actor
I have long been a proponent of 11x14 orchestral scores, which is what I've
used in all 23 large ensemble works I've produced over the past 15 years.  I
find it to be an ideal combination of size and shape.  Legal (8.5x14) is
uncomfortably narrow, necessitating excessive page turns, and tabloid
(11x17) is unwieldy, tends to be floppy on many music stands, and doesn't
fit in most briefcases.  The only time I would consider tabloid is for
scores pushing 30 or more staves, which are most likely concert band pieces,
and the occasional large orchestral score where additional divisi staves are
unavoidable (composers, please combine wind parts to the traditional 2 per
staff unless voice crossings make it infeasible; I know it makes it harder
to extract parts, but conductors will thank you -- or at least not curse
you).

-Lee

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From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of
Linda Worsley
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 8:44 AM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] Score Printing Question

Hi, Finale people,

I am getting some large orchestra scores ready for printing, and it
has been a long time since I outsourced this and had scores printed
and bound by an actual print shop.  This was in the 90s and
pre-digital, ad I know everything has changed.

For the past few decades I have been writing and printing scores and
parts for use in recording sessions, and both traditional legal and
letter size paper, and printing in my own studio laser printer for
that work.  When I have sent scores or parts out for others to print
(other performer grips) I have sent out pdfs of my finale files, but
they were always the usual 81/2 x 11 (or 14) format, and that was fine
for studio work, and, to some degree, for performance.  Parts look
fine in that format, but scores are better in the larger, wider
format.

Now I have recently returned to writing (and re-issuing) some larger
orchestral works, and "legal"-length paper, which is fine for legal
work, is not the best for full orchestra scores.  My old, commercially
printed scores, vary in size and shape, so I'm not sure what would be
best for these new scores.

I wold love information for those of you who are in the U.S. and have
had scores printed in a larger format.  What dimensions do you find
best for large or fairly large full orchestra?  How do you go about
getting them printed and bound.  If you have them done by a commercial
printer, I would be particularly interested in sources in the New
Yokr, L.A., or San Francisco areas.  That said, in this digital age,
these things can be done anywhere, so any information about the
successful procedures done anywhere would be much appreciated.

I suppose providing music for download and print, I will have to stick
with legal-size paper for scores, but I'd like to have the option of a
more usable, readable size and format to make physical scores.

Thanks in advance for any advice or information.

Linda Worsley
Composer/arranger
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