On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 09:40 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
I thought it would make sense to see what Finale's Document Setup Wizard
would do for this instrumentation in the "Choral" score order. Here it is,
read it and weep:
[snip]
Sweet jeebus....
Of course, both are absurd. But, if you take the first "Choral" setup and
flip the lower strings down below the violins, it looks fairly good:
Boy Soprano SATB chorus Harp Piano Timp Bells/Chimes Perc Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Contrabass
I've decided that that is the arrangement that makes the most sense to me, so that's what I'm going with.
_BUT_, the more I look at it, the more I like the "normal" orchestral order:
Timp Bells/Chimes Perc Harp Piano Boy Soprano SATB chorus Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Contrabass
Which is what you started with! (The Document Wizard for "orchestral" does
get this right, BTW.)
Right, that's how I ended up with the above. However, while it may have grown on you, it started to really grate on me, so now I'm going with the "chorus - harp - piano on top" model.
- Darcy
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