At 2:19 AM 06/02/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Short of scores for percussion only, or just strings and >percussion, I don't think I've ever seen a score with percussion as the >top three staves.
Isn't this in pretty much the same category? Just strings, percussion, and voices. Voices, like strings, go below the other instruments. >Also, it is the convention for jazz (which is >what I'm most familiar with) to put the solo vocal line at the top of >the score, and drums at the bottom, so putting the boy soprano soloist >on top and the percussion lower down offers a certain comforting >familiarity (even if, as in this case, those conventions are totally >inappropriate). And aesthetically, it looks more balanced to me to >have the parts with lyrics at the top of the score. Well, the convention I'm most familiar with is opera, and in a full score of an opera, the parts with lyrics are rarely at the top of the score (only if it's a passage with just strings). For what it's worth, I just opened up my Boheme score to the beginning of act three, and I see one system where top staff is the Triangle, along with several others where it's the harp. >But not if it will cause the real conductor of this piece to go >"Huh???" I, too, would be curious to see what a real conductor thinks of this. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
