Klarinet Archive - Posting 000377.txt from 2002/11

From: MVinquist@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Page Turns
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:02:40 -0500

I worked in music publishing for several years (Schirmer, Chappell, Big 3)
doing sheet music, band music and song collections. That time (the 1970s)
was at the end of the engraved music/manuscript/music typewriter era. While
the page turns weren't known at the outset, the people who produced the
"plates" (the music as laid out on the page, to be photographed for offset
printing) were all musicians. They were very aware of page turns and were
careful to make them possible. When I made the final layouts of parts and
books, I always made sure the page turns were OK, and the specialist music
printers would save you if you forgot, though as Dan Leeson says, they
sometimes messed it up.

The situation got worse when music publishing went through a crisis in the
late 70s, with publishers being bought up by people who looked on music as a
"product." I had unfortunate dealings with non-musicians who messed things
up because they didn't know, or care, how to do it right.

With today's computerized music publishing, there's no excuse for impossible
page turns, though I know it happens. There's a professionalism involved in
music publishing, just as there is in performing.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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