Re: Choral scores conventions question

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Jacques,

> I’ve created this score from a psalms book, both attached, with explicit, 
> sometimes artificial, time signatures and rests for the time being.
>
> What is the usual way to setup such a choral, in terms of compound time 
> signatures, partials, measure 13 spanning over a line break, minimizing the 
> number of rests such as measure 4, the display of rests at measure 8, and the 
> like?

I would always recommend to keep everything as close as possible to the 
actual style of writing employed by composers like Schein. The original 
1627 printing looks as follows:

https://imgur.com/a/wZMsAq3
https://imgur.com/a/pcCDMoV

Of course, today we would prefer using an actual score in 2 or 4 staves, 
but I'd strongly argue against pretending there is an actual alternating 
metre, actual measures and so on.

I didn't typeset exactly this tune, but here is an example from 
Osiander's collection that I engraved some time ago:

https://imgur.com/a/SKoDwJB

Best
Lukas