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actually, engraving standard says that the first page must contain all the instruments that are to play in teh score, and the subsequant pages MAY or may not have optimized staves.
as a conductor, I would MUCH rather have fewer pages to turn than huge expanses of empty staff.
many contemporary scores have taken up this bad habit of leaving all staves in all the way through the score. I disagree with this behaviour.
With a properly layed out score, there is no reason to be looking for instrument names at every page turn. (technically speaking, a conductor isn't supposed to be sight-reading an orchestral score either)
A carefully layed out score makes it obvious which instruments are which, even in an optimized score. score lay-out is actually an artform in itself.
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"Those that know, do;
Those that understand, teach."
-Aristotle-
"toute audace engendrée par l'ignorance cesse d'être une audace et devient une maladresse"
-Debussy-
In musical criticism, when issues of craft and technical consideration are set aside, what remains is more subjective. However, until technical issues are dealt with, the subjective portion bears considerably less weight.
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