<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Byrd, Donald A. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donbyrd@indiana.edu" target="_blank">donbyrd@indiana.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 21:49:55 -0800, Craig Sapp <<a href="mailto:craigsapp@gmail.com" target="_blank">craigsapp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Don,<br>
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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Byrd, Donald A. <<a href="mailto:donbyrd@indiana.edu" target="_blank">donbyrd@indiana.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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Finally (and I suspect MEI already handles this), I'd like to point out<br>
that two sizes of staves -- "normal" and "cue-size" -- aren't always<br>
enough; there are published performing editions that use three staff sizes.<br>
(In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if editions with _four_ sizes exist,<br>
though I don't know of any.)<br>
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I have seen at least three sizes in a score before, and this would<br>
theoretically allow for four sizes:<br>
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In a piano/instrumental score, the piano part typically has the<br>
instrumental part displayed above it in a slightly smaller size. And I<br>
have seen ossia parts for the instrumental staff which in turn would be<br>
smaller than the instrumental staff size. So if the piano part also had an<br>
ossia, then there would be four staff sizes, unless the ossia for the piano<br>
is the same size as the instrumental part (which it probably should).<br>
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Right. My list of CMN extremes<br>
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<a href="http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremes.htm" target="_blank">http://www.informatics.<u></u>indiana.edu/donbyrd/<u></u>CMNExtremes.htm</a><br>
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lists the J. C. Bach Concerto for Harpsichord or Piano and Strings in E-flat, Op. 7 no. 5 (Dobereiner ed., 1927), where the 3rd size appears briefly, for an ossia. I'm sure I've seen other instances but I can't recall any; if you have other(s) handy, I'd love to hear about 'em (though I'm not sure others on this list would).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The number of possible sizes would be unlimited since it can be defined for every staff individually (in staffDef element) if necessary. Our proposal was nonetheless to have a cue-size for the most common cases where we have only one size of cue-size staves and to have it defined at a higher level (in scoreDef element).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Laurent</div></div>