D. H. Bailey suggests that page turns are a nuisance for performers, hence the very tight spacing you see in a lot of (performing) editions.
But the examples David Fention provided were critical study editions (I assume), so I don't think performers are playing from those. And even if they were, I'm sure there is a happy middle ground where the pages are more open in terms of layout, and not have bothersome page turns that annoy performers.
Kim Patrick Clow
On 5/11/06, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
> David Fenton provided some examples of engraving at
> http://www.dfenton.com/Editing/. One thing I noticed: the extreme
> tightness of spacing. In the day of when paper is relatively cheap: why
> are so many music engravings don't have much more open spacing in terms
> of layout?
Page turns are a real nuisance in performance -- the fewer the better,
as far as I'm concerned, as long as the music is legible.
And often the music spacing is one way to control that page turns are in
the proper places (i.e. right before or right after longer rests so
there's time to make the page turn.)
Cheapness of paper shouldn't dictate the page layout.
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