Bernard wrote:
>I quote Gardner Read, ("Music Notation") who says [to quote in
>full]:
>
>"The first ending is marked with a figure 1 and enclosed by a
>level bracket with an initial downward jog, ending wiht a
>similar jog at the repeat sign. The second ending is marked with
>a figure 2 and is also set off with a horizontal bracket - this
>time beginning with the down-jog and extended without
>termination, usually as far as the first barline thereafter. Of
>the first ending contuinues onto another line or system, the
>bracket minus a downward jog is not given the concluding
>downward jog until the repeat mark is reached.
>
>Should there be a third, or terminating ending, the second
>ending is notated in the manner of the usual first ending."
>
>Kurt Stone ("Music notation in the 20th century") illustrates
>with examples only, all of which agree with Read, except he
>allows the word Fine instead of "2" if the 2nd time bar is at
>the end of a piece.
>
>The little pamphlet "Standard Music Notation practice" bu the
>Music Publisher's Association (which is available in PDF on the
>net somewhere) says "endings must be bracketed. When a second
>ending occurs in the middle of a piece, the bracket should
>extend for a measure or two and then end without the closing
>stroke. When the second ending occurs at the end of a piece or
>section, the bracket must be closed." And 2 examples follow, one
>showing a 2nd time section consisting of 2 bars and then a
>thin-thick barline and showing a downstroke on the 2-bar
>bracket.
This is entirely consistent with my experience playing classical
music from reputable publishers. I never saw a 2nd ending (or
"last" ending, but classical music tends not to have more than
two, and in what follows I will refer to them as 2nd endings) that
ended with a downward jog. They just trail off after a measure.
Of course this makes perfect sense: What logical significance
would the "end" of a 2nd ending have? The 2nd ending is what you
play when you reach the beginning of the 1st ending the 2nd time.
It begins after the repeat and includes the entire remainder of
the piece. To arbitrarily define a point in the music as the end
of the 2nd ending would have no effect on how the notes are
played.
Programs that extend the 2nd ending until some arbitrary
terminator (and to the end of the piece absent a terminator) are
in conflict with standard typesetting practices.
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