Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 2002/11

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Page turns
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:45:39 -0500

It is an interesting phenomenon that in some publishing houses, the left
hand does not listen to, speak to, or know what the right hand is doing.

The editors who lay out planned publications are more often than not,
vitally concerned about page turn issues, and they often plan their
printings with page turns carefully thought out. But what is often not
known during this early phase is whether or not the first printed page
of music will wind up as a recto (a right hand page) or a verso (a left
hand page). And that is where the problems begin.

The printing of the performance part may be altered in any of several
ways by the printing house. They may put a title page, or several pages
of textual material (including adds) preceding the music. And this
creates a situation in which the editor's effort to have two pages face
to face so as to AVOID page turns, are defeated when these same two
pages work out to be not face to face.

Such a case arose in Barenreiter's edition of the Mozart clarinet
quintet. The third movement, having a minuet with two trios, was
carefully laid out so that the minuet was supposed to be on the left
side of the page, and the two minuets on the right. But the printed
version had the minuet on the right side, followed by a page turn to the
fist minuet, followed by a backward page turn for the da capo to the
minuet, followed by a forward page turn for the 2nd minuet, followed by
a backward page turn for the final run through of the minuet.

It was so awful, that they had to reprint the entire edition.

It happens all the time.
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