While these staff sizes were standardized, if you were to carefully examine the work of different plate engravers using this system, you would see that there was quite a bit of subtle variance in the staff heights between publishers and works. N✧ “Cadenza” – for pocket editions, cue lines in piano parts.N✦ “Small Middle” – for chorals, condensed sheet music.N✥ “Large Middle” – for bands, sheet music.N✤ “Peter” – for folios, organ works, etc.N✣ “Regular, Ordinary or Common” – for sheet music, concertos, classics.N✢ “English” – for instruction books, elementary band.N✡ “Giant” – used for instruction books, elementary band.There were 8 standard staff sizes, of which 5 were in common use: from “The Art of Music & Engraving” by Ted RossĮach of these numbered staff sizes was associated with a unique trade name. Prior to the era of computer note-setting, plate engravers (music engravers) used a system of universally accepted staff sizes. A bit of an historical perspective may be a good place to start. There is a reason for the seemingly unrelated numerical values which have remained in Finale’s Page Format Dialog > System Scaling since very early versions. I thought it might be good to devote some time to reviewing Finale’s Staff Height (Size) controls, since this seems to be a misunderstood area of the program.
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