At 8:09 AM -0400 11/1/12, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >One day we'll talk about landscape scores. :)
They seem to work just fine for organists, and for duo pianists (one part on the left and the other on the right). They might work for people reading one to a stand, if there were a reason to use them. But as a string player who almost always shares a stand, I would hope that they would never be used in that situation because for aging eyes the distance from the left-hand player to the far right side of the open landscape part could present real reading problems. (Or the same thing from the other side, of course.) And having gone through two cataract surgeries a year apart, I'm VERY aware of the problems! In terms of score (rather than parts), our jazz writers seem to use them a lot, although I've never asked them exactly why. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
