The publisher I see nowadays who almost always prints choral music on
letter-size (or folded tabloid, same difference) is E.C. Schirmer.
In fact, I just received a box of scores from them that, when you
look inside and notice the amount of white space in the margins, are
reprinted from an old octavo-sized score onto the letter-size paper.
There are a few other publishers who will use letter-size from time
to time, but everything I've received from E.C. Schirmer in the past
few years has been on letter-size paper.
-- Mike
On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:43 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 9:24 PM -0400 7/31/07, Lora Crighton wrote:
--- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 29 Jul 2007 at 9:29, Christopher Smith wrote:
> The largest choral parts I have > ever seen are 8.5 x 11
Commercially printed choral music is always octavo
size, which is, of
course, smaller than 8.5 x 11.
That didn't seem right, so I checked - I actually own
several pieces commercially printed choral music that
is letter size, and one that is a strange (to me)
size, being a bit taller & a bit narrower than letter.
Most of my scores are early music, so perhaps that
makes a difference?
Unusual to find commercially printed letter size, but not
surprising these days. The taller and narrower pages you describe
are almost certainly A4 size, the European equivalent of letter
size. I am not writing for publication, but for immediate use, and
I use U.S. letter size exclusively because all U.S. business
machines are set up to handle that size quickly and painlessly.
(We have a rather large population of international students, and
every once in a while a student will turn in written work formatted
for A4 as an electronic file. Our department's printer is smart
enough to recognize the difference and to wait for A4 paper, which
of course we don't have, with the result that that one file holds
up the queue waiting to be printed until someone notices and tells
it to print anyway!!)
John
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John R. Howell
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Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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