NOTATIO

One more piece of advice:

I assume you are sending PDF's to a US orchestra. Best bet is to get in touch with their librarian (*NOT* the orchestra manager - they will say anything to make their job easier) and see what they prefer.

As a librarian, I (and many of my colleagues) disliked composers ...

No, the smallest we would accept was 9X12 (inches) with a 7mm staff.

Preferred size was 10X13 (same as a standard Kalmus part) but we had to have that custom cut. However, many professional orchestra libraries use this size.

9.5X13 is also common.

I think G. Schirmer used to use a very large size ...

While the score is not too bad, the extracted part you provided was not very good, primarily due to the overwhelming amount of white space. Although the horizontal spacing is tight (a bit too tight for my taste) the large spaces between systems makes this hard to read. In fact, the Trio appears to ...

I'd be curious to see one of the extracted parts.

Sometimes sextuple harps...

Musicians rarely read backwards...

It's perfectly fine the way it is. Maybe put a cautionary natural on the Vln.1 B just to be safe.

Fred G. Unn wrote: 31 Aug 2026, 01:05
I've bought a lot of books on notation on AbeBooks too. It's easy to set up an alert to be notified if a title you want becomes available.

I did check AbeBooks. They had four copies ranging from $75 to $165.

If you are interested in obtaining this out of print book, do not go to Amazon, where copies are going for up to about $300.

I found a copy on Ebay for about a tenth of that.

Thank you for re-posting this.