On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 09:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C'mon Darcy - I can also cite many pages where there IS consistent size proportions from page to page
Well, yeah. I considered that too obvious to mention. It's just a given that most scores have a default staff height, which is expanded or contracted as necessary.
- but you've missed the point - I consider your examples to be the exception and not the rule
It's a pretty commonplace exception. I could have cited dozens more pages from each of those scores, and many others besides. And of course, it depends on your definition of "dramatic"... The B&H edition of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra I mentioned (which I *would* consider an example of "fine music engraving", along with many of the original sources Dover uses) has staff heights ranging between (roughly) 4 and 5 mm -- with 5 mm being the default. The page-to-page variation is usually fairly subtle by my standards, but certainly *a lot* more than the +/-3% Andrew allows. And sometimes, yes, there are "dramatic" fluctuations, occasionally even on facing pages. You may not like it (obviously you and Andrew agree on this), and that's fine. But I don't see how you can seriously claim this sort of thing is anomalous or unusual.
"Where did I get the idea"... indeed.
- Darcy
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