At 5:14 AM +0100 1/28/07, shirling & neueweise wrote:
hi, recently a german orchestra refused to use
the parts that i had prepared for them, claiming
they didn't meet the laws on minimum size. it
must be said that they were looking for pretty
much any excuse not to play the piece in fact,
and they found one in this law! the festival
director worked it out in the end , and
apparently the very elegant and well-bound
cream-coloured 100g parts i used went in the
trash or something and were replaced with
photocopies. [snip]
any suggestions?
Law? That would be interesting to hear more
about. But MOLA (Major Orchestra Librarians
Association, I think) has formulated and posted
somewhere on the internet rather strict
guidelines, which were recently discussed to
death on OrchestraList with composers on one
side, librarians on the other, and conductors and
players sort of milling around.
MOLA doesn't want ANYTHING on 8 1/2" x 11", 11" x
17", or the European equivalents. They want
paper the size of the old Breitkopf and other
German editions (tradition!), staves 8.5 mm high
for string parts and 8 mm for wind parts (further
comment follows), and good quality, heavy weight,
opaque paper (with which I agree completely). In
other words, parts from e.g. Hal Leonard would be
instantly rejected, proving that even if you CAN
shrink staff size easily in Finale to fit more on
a page, you SHOULDN'T!
I just experimented by printing some parts for my
players using an 8.5 mm staff size in one
version, with the music spaced well out, and 7.5
mm in a second version, with more music on each
line. (This was violin and viol parts to the
Rameau "Piéces de Clavecin en Concerts.") They
instantly rejected the 8.5 mm parts and much
preferred the 7.5 mm parts. So much for MOLA and
their aging orchestra members (like me!) with
poor eyesight!!
John
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