Re: [Finale] Layout procedures

[Michael Cook]

I think that the examples that Darcy gives are more the rule than the 
exception. Just glancing at some scores of large orchestral works and 
operas from eminent publishers such as Schott, Boosey, Universal and 
Bärenreiter, I can't find a single one where the staff sizes don't 
change. I think the point is that, usually, they don't change 
"dramatically", but rather "undramatically": the differences in staff 
size are not so great as to be immediately evident. If you need 24 
staves on just a few pages of a score, there's no point in making all 
the staves on the other pages (where you might only need 16 or 18) 
just as small. This is just one of the old engraving tricks which 
help to make good-looking, readable scores. (And don't forget: most 
Dover scores are straight reprints of Peters and the like)

Michael Cook

At 9:36 -0400 11/06/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C'mon Darcy - I can also cite many pages where there IS consistent size
proportions from page to page -  but you've missed the point - I consider your
examples to be the exception and not the rule and besides, I 
wouldn't make a habit
of emulating Dover scores as examples of fine music engraving.


 In a message dated 6/9/03 10:08:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 << Well, it's very useful in orchestral scores, where your system
 reduction can change dramatically from page to page, but you want page
 numbers, headers and footers, etc, to remain a consistent size, and you
 don't want to check the "Fixed Size" box for those text elements.
 Darcy, I'm curious - where did you get the idea that dramatic system
 reductions from page to page was an acceptable engraving practice?
Uh, by looking at orchestral scores?

Compare page 32 and 33 of Petrushka (Dover), for starters.  Or how
about pages 12 and 13 (or for that matter, 12 and 30) of the Rite? 
Pages 3 and 4 of Daphnis & Chloe?  Pages 59 and 60 of Mahler 9?  Pages
11 and 12 of the B&H Concerto for Orchestra?  Etc etc etc etc etc etc
etc...
Where did you get the idea that it was *not* an acceptable engraving
practice?  (I know Andrew feels that way as well, but I don't quite see
how you would go about engrave these scores without "dramatic
fluctuations" in system reduction.) >>
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