Formatting Parts Suggestions
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fijimorgan
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Are there certain guides or settings that publishers use when formatting extracted parts? What is the best layout for clear, legible parts, i.e. measures per system, systems per page, etc.
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Peter Thomsen
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Quoting "Behind Bars" by Elaine Gould:
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Casting off is the term used to describe organizing the layout for a lice of music: the number of bars per system, staves per page, and pages per work.
The skill of casting off is to balance both practical considerations (e. g. amount and size of music to place on a page) and musical considerations with good spacing.
MUSICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Where possible, changes of section should coincide with a new system, so as to be most conspicuous, as should the start of a repeat section or coda.
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"...
Casting off is the term used to describe organizing the layout for a lice of music: the number of bars per system, staves per page, and pages per work.
The skill of casting off is to balance both practical considerations (e. g. amount and size of music to place on a page) and musical considerations with good spacing.
MUSICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Where possible, changes of section should coincide with a new system, so as to be most conspicuous, as should the start of a repeat section or coda.
..."
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996
