> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of John Howell > > I always use booklet format IF there are good page turns. Sometimes > there are not, and it's necessary to have 3 pages visible on the > stand. In that case, accordion binding, with only one side printed, > has long been the professional preference. Many of the Nashville > arrangers--you know, the ones who use Finale right out of the > box--pay absolutely no attention to page turns. Good Broadway > copyists pay lots of attention, and even skip pages to help the > players. > > Some of the Broadway show materials we get use an even older, > pre-staple technique. The books for "King & I," which we did last > summer, ran about 100 pages, and the booklets were sewn together! I > suspect the same is true of opera parts, certainly pre-computer ones. > > John
Last year a symphony I wrote had a 24-page harp part which had one spot with an unavoidably impossible page turn. I printed an extra copy of the next page and attached it as a fold-out to the booklet. -Lee _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
