On 22 Jan 2010 at 1:43, Mark D Lew wrote: > In the paragraph you're responding to, I was referring specifically > to music which is very melismatic, which is what I thought perhaps > David F was dealing with.
The music I was working with was Samuel Scheidt. Here's the current unproofread score (unproofed for notes, layout is probably only going to be tweaked slightly): http://tearesofthemuses.com/Editions/Scores/Scheidt-Laudates/ It's a mix of syllabic and melismatic, and very crowded spacing (and very small) because I must fit the music on two pages per piece. We used an earlier messy draft, laid out in 10 minutes before I had to run to rehearsal, and it was good enough for the instrumentalists (and we've done this music before, so it's not unfamiliar territory), but this semester we're collaborating with two professional singers (as part of a grant from NYU -- see http://tearesofthemuses.com), and the materials for the singers have to be decent. I'll probably produce a "singer's score" that is larger and occupies 3 pages per piece. Of other music we're doing, I have to create an organist's score, too, so I'm ending up needing multiple layouts. It's a pain, but it's the only way to insure that everybody's on the same page in terms of our peformance editing (some of this is also done because of clef issues). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
