Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-02-23 13:58
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It was the entire "long" performance on a couple of sheets a paper!!
Right, that's generally how it works, depending on the editor, the font, and the piece of music. You only have your own part, the oboe part, on one treble clef staff, on the paper in front of you*, and if the editor is using a small enough font for the staff and notes, he can fit a considerable number of measures into only two pieces of staff paper.
Also, bear in mind that orchestral staff paper is much larger than a piece of, say, copy machine paper, so you can fit more on it right off the bat.
And you can witness this phenomenon in any of those oboe solo books that come with separate piano accompaniment book. The oboe part will be only one page long, but the piano part may cover three or four pages.
So it's "condensed" in the sense that you only have one part for one instrument on your paper, not the entire Beethoven's Fifth.
*the downside to this is that you can't follow along with the other instruments and see what they're playing, which is disconcerting if you're used to choral singing and to being able to do that, so if your entrance comes right after another instrument, you can't depend on seeing their part and then coming in--you have to doggedly sit there and silently count measures until it's your turn.
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