[Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread Michael Meyer
Hoping for the (not-necessarily-Finale) knowledge of the list! A student of mine wrote their end-of-year composition project for my Music Theory class for soprano accompanied by clarinet, violin, bass clarinet, and cello. For a chamber group, what order would you put the instruments in? It seems

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread j...@thomastudios.com
My preference for that instrumentation would be: Soprano, clarinet, violin, & cello. Orchestra order be damned! *** J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On Jun 11, 2018, at 12:17 PM, Michael Meyer wrote: > > Hoping for the (not-necessarily-Finale) knowledge of the list! > > A

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread Christopher Smith
Chamber music is most usually ordered high to low, with solo instrument or voice at the top, and piano at the bottom. So for this consort I would put it almost exactly as you wrote it (violin above clarinet, though): voice violin clarinet bass clarinet cello Christopher > On Mon Jun 11, at Mon

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread Michael Edwards
[Michael Meyer:] A student of mine wrote their end-of-year composition project for my Music Theory class for soprano accompanied by clarinet, violin, bass clarinet, and cello. For a chamber group, what order would you put the instruments in? It seems weird to put them in strict orchestral or

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread j...@thomastudios.com
Forgot bass clarinet, I’d put it under the clarinet. *** J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On Jun 11, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Michael Edwards wrote: > > [Michael Meyer:] > >> A student of mine wrote their end-of-year composition project for my Music >> Theory class for soprano acc

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-11 Thread Steve Parker
Sop, clar, bass clar, violin, cello for me too, no question. Steve P. > On 11 Jun 2018, at 20:32, j...@thomastudios.com wrote: > > Forgot bass clarinet, I’d put it under the clarinet. > > *** > J D Thomas > ThomaStudios > > > >> On Jun 11, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Michael E

Re: [Finale] OT: score order for a chamber group

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Meyer
Thanks very much to everyone for their responses! I appreciate it. — Mike Meyer On June 11, 2018 at 3:17:01 PM, Michael Meyer (mlmli...@gmail.com) wrote: Hoping for the (not-necessarily-Finale) knowledge of the list! A student of mine wrote their end-of-year composition project for my Music Th