String players are seated further apart from each other and further
back from the music stands, because our bows and arms would knock each
other and the music stands otherwise.
On 18 February 2011 12:59, Blake Richardson wrote:
> Why would this be? Just curious. It doesn't seem like one's instru
At 6:29 PM -0800 2/17/11, Blake Richardson wrote:
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"The most readable staff size for all instruments is 8.5 mm...
Although 8 mm is readable for winds, it is less so for strings.
Wind players can read music from staves that measure 7.5 mm, but
this is very problematic for string players."
On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:00 AM, wrote:
> From: Paul Hayden
> Date: February 16, 2011 9:47:25 AM PST
> To:
> Subject: [Finale] Staff size recommendations
> Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
>
>
> "The most readable staff size for all instruments is 8.5 mm... Although 8 mm
> is readable for winds, it i
Hi Paul,
It's been a while since I've chimed in on the list.
If you were to measure any orchestral part published by Breitkopf (Leipzig), I
believe the staff size is 7.6 mm or 88% in Finale. 7mm is a minimum, although
commonly used by G. Schirmer. You can also check reprint publishers such as
On Feb 17, 2011, John Howell wrote:
Don't forget that they also ask for large sized paper, 9 x 12" or
larger. Those staves on U.S. letter paper would be AWFULLY large!
I agree. I use 9.25 x 12 and the large staves (8.5 mm) for orchestral
string parts look large but okay. I think 7.5 - 8 mm
MacHD/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2011/Plug-ins
Obvious huh? Gotta love MakeMusic
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On 2011-02-16 18:47, Paul Hayden wrote:
Just received my copy of Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars". It's going to
take a while to browse through all 600+ pages, but I wanted to ask about
one thing she discusses: staff size. On page 557 she states "If the
performer is likely to be some distance from th
Marcello,
Why not use Human Playback - jazz style and set the swing to your preference?
It will apply to the whole document.
Chuck
On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Marcello Noia wrote:
> Took a default file, added a staff to make a simple piano+acoustic bass sheet.
> At the beginning of the top
At 3:26 PM +0100 2/17/11, dc wrote:
John Howell écrit:
Interesting that Sibelius' default size, for
both score and parts, appears to be 7 mm.
Interesting perhaps, but makes little sense.
Parts obviously need to be larger than scores...
Dennis
Well, I just pulled up a string quartet templa
Took a default file, added a staff to make a simple piano+acoustic bass
sheet.
At the beginning of the top staff I put the default "swing" expression
and set it to 75% value.
(First strange thing, why Finale allows me to assign it only to top staff?)
In piano staff I manually enter chords in hal
At 11:47 AM -0600 2/16/11, Paul Hayden wrote:
Just received my copy of Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars". It's going to
take a while to browse through all 600+ pages, but I wanted to ask
about one thing she discusses: staff size. On page 557 she states
"If the performer is likely to be some distance
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