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Author: JamesE
Date: 2003-05-16 01:04
I think I probably know the answer to this, but I thought I would throw it out for any comments.
Last fall I played in the pit orchestra for Oklahoma and am now playing the same for Chicago. The music books for both these shows are done by hand. The Oklahoma score was beautifully done, but the Chicago book has some places that are pretty hard to read.
I was think that with all the music scoring software around the publishers could do a pretty nice job on a score. My guess is that there is some economics involved in using the older handwritten copies. Does that sound right?
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-05-16 05:29
So many of these things have been in music libraries for years. It's hard to know if would be cost-effective to redo them. A lot of the stuff looks way too nasty to scan.
A number of newer shows are being published using software, and I'm sure that the trend will continue. Five Guys Named Moe would be an example.I played a version of Hello Dolly that was engraved. You can probably expect newer-looking scores from shows that are revived on Broadway with new arrangements. I recently played a production of South Pacific where I thought that the music looked much better than what I remembered from years ago.
Allen Cole
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-17 20:05
The "cleaner the better" for me, have seen some real baddies! In the old manuscripts, if the old WRONG NOTES are not corrected in INK, they are re-erased, to be ?found? later!!. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-19 02:20
Actually, in some cases with "modern" scores (with loads of musical symbols, et cetera) often the handwritten ones (so long as they're neat) are far quicker to produce that with notation software - which, in my experience, handles "symbolic" notation rather poorly or ackwardly. This has been my experience.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-05-19 15:45
FYI
I just finished the NYC Broadway run of "Oklahoma."
At the first rehearsal we were given the original parts (from 1943!), they were impossible to read, they then retrieved the UK production's part from a few year ago, they were also a mess, with lots of wrong notes uncorrected and dirty. A well known NYC copyist redid the parts (on Finale I believe), at great expense to the production. But it made all the difference in our performances, with clean, easy to read, well thought out page turns, and corrected notes.
If your employers can afford it, and you're willing to complain about bad, unreadable parts, get new copies and enjoy playing your shows wherever you are.
Good luck,
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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