A slightly strange idea - I’d like to know if this is actually something people do in practice.
I have a piece where in the 1st violin part the music spreads across 3 pages. I have a good spot for a page turn after a page of music, so the piece starts on the RH page, followed by a 2 page spread. There is a DC al coda on the third page. There is plenty of time to turn back for the DC as the violins I don’t play until 4 bars in.
However, the coda is on the third page, and the ‘to coda’ is on the first page, making a very awkward page turn necessary.
The idea is to move the coda to a LH page before the rest of the music. That works very well from a page turn perspective.
But is this going to confuse the players? I’ve put a summary picture together of how that would look…
Page Structure.pdf (34.5 KB)
I think that for such cases it is possible/common to put three pages near another on the pult 
(Personally I would find confusing for the eyes, to jump as you described.)
If you would like to post your file (also with transformed pitches if you want), It would be interesting to see if other solutions are possible, depending on context.
Thanks Christian. That’s what I thought too.
A fold-out page is a solution, but this is one of a number of flows in the work, it’s not at the start or end of the work, and the part would be shared by 2 violin players, all of which factors make it less than ideal (according to Gould, at any rate).
An alternative is to write the form out linearly, and find a way of making the page turns work.
I’m happy to post a project- I’d like to see if anyone has any feedback on my idea first, to finally rule it out (or possibly in).
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Not your exact situation but similar, I think. This worked well with a short Coda. No confusion for the players. This is the second page of a Cello part with a 3-page spread, but was fine for the other instrumentalists with more pages, and especially the singers who didn’t have to turn the end of 16 pages to find the Coda.
Hope this helps.
Chris
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Thanks Chris, that’s a very interesting idea.
