Re: Musical theater headers

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Daniel,

> I’m engraving pit parts for a new musical

Welcome to the club!  =)

> and one of the arrangers has given me this note: “To follow convention, the 
> song number should be in large type in a box in the top-right corner of the 
> first page of the song. Players expect this and it will help them to locate 
> the song quickly.” He references the attached example as a model.

1. Yuck.  ;)

2. Yes, this header block is found in various scores/parts… but really, there 
is no “standard”, as one sees when one MDs as many shows as I do.

> To those of you who use LilyPond for musical theater, do you do this with 
> your parts?

No. My headers are inspired by the [more elegant, IMO] model of Boosey & Hawkes 
“West Side Story” (1959 etc., not the less-attractive 2000 edition).

> If not, what would be the best way to achieve it?]

It would be easy to duplicate this with a set of custom titles and header 
variables. I *literally* just sent a new Vocal Book and Libretto/Script to a 
customer three minutes ago… so I would have some time now to mock up how this 
could be done, if you can’t do it yourself.

Cheers,
Kieren.