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thanks hautbois. I looked over the whole viola solo part, and used treble clefs for entire phrases where a large part of the phrase was in 3+ ledger lines, but where no section used ledger lines below the staff (other than middle C.) it does look much cleaner now, it certainly takes less vertical sp...

After reading up on viola clef changes from (supposedly) authorities on the topic (ie: viola players) I've become mildly paranoid about using those clef changes. A couple of "orchestration online" type sites also set rather strict and awkward "standards" for when to use a clef ch...

I'm posting an example here, though I think it's not the most extreme one from this piece. My viola part has a lot of going to the extreme high register then back down to low notes, and back up. I find passages like the one I'm attaching here to look a bit too extreme, but if I include a clef change...

NeeraWM Yes, I also rarely hide any of my string staves. Generally speaking, I prefer to have staves for each group of instruments (woodwinds, brass, strings) present, even if there's very little music there. The only group of instruments I generally hide are percussion. I just finished revising an...

I tend to leave empty staves on the page when instruments on those staves will be playing on the next page. so let's say there are no brass before page 5, which is their first entry, I'll hide all brass staves (except page 1, which always shows the full orchestration) until page 4. On page 4 I will ...

thanks for the 2nd opinion/confirmation, @OCTO

thanks. In the interim after posting my question, I went back to the score and added the dynamic, and yes, it actually looks more clear this way. As in "yes! this music is still fricken' loud!" it also allowed me to remove an extraneous text expression I had added at one point, which I now...

I'm working on the score of a single movement that is sub-divided into sections, played without pause, but the score does place double barlines at each new section (not "final" barlines, just regular thin double lines.) one passage ends :forte after a crescendo. double barline, then the ne...

ahh, yes, that would make a difference.

I'm curious about the use of a bracket...
wouldn't that sort of clutter a score? (I'm thinking, for example, of a large orchestral score.)