I've got a singing exam tomorrow, and am working from a fair bit of transposed music - which is all printed out on A4 sheets of paper. Can you advise on the best way to sort this for my accompanist? E.g. would a file be a good idea? Or should I sticky tape the stuff together? Get it into book form in some way?

You'd best ask your accompanist what he/she prefers, because different people prefer different layouts!

I think you need to talk to your accompanist. There's nothing worse than having to play, and struggle at the same time with holding copies open etc. It's a bit late though to be thinking about this now if the exam is tomorrow isn't it?

David

I use plastic leave display books, the pages don't stick together, and they lie nice and flat on the music stand.

Infact I'm so fond of the that I suggest my students use them for music printed out from the Internet (legal copies) together with any A4 sheets of manuscript paper I scrawl exercises on.

Me too!

David

I would like to do this but I've found in the past that the plastic reflects the light and I can't see the music. Do/can you get non-reflective pockets?

I usually use loose A4 sheets, which if the stand is big enough I try to spread out so I can see as many sheets as possible without turning over. Sometimes I tape shetts together. I prefer to sort it myself, so as dmcbarton and jo clarinet say I'd give it to your accompanist and let him/her decide how they want it.

I have a 4-hole punch and use it on loose A4 sheets. For stuff that doesn't leave the house they then go in an A4 plastic binder. For portable music, I put the sheets between two thick A4 cardboard covers, again 4-hole perforated, and use treasury tags to keep the lot loosely together. All this you can get at Rymans.

P.S. You do have to be a bit careful not to have the music going right up to the inner binding or it may be effectively erase by the punched hole.