Jack Campin wrote:
>
> In music I've seen that uses this construct, it's represented by
> printing "(3x)" above the staff. A staff-notation generator could
> do whatever it liked with "|:: ... ::|", but I suspect that most
> non-Scandiwegian users would be happier with some such explicit
> representation using honest-to-god numerals.
So you're picking on us poor peaceful vikings again, eh? ;-)
I wouldn't say that kind of notation is common in my part of the world,
really. I know about it, and I've seen one or two occurences, but very few.
It might be more used in Sweden trhan in Norway, though. Traditional
Norwegian music (or at least what survives of it) tends to be either
rather free improvisational pieces without any repeats at all or
strictly built on one of the continental "art music" forms (binary,
trinary or rondo). As a matter of fact, two of the best known Norwegian
folk tunes were composed by Leopold Mozart and Jean-Baptiste Lully
respectively ;-)
>
> Does any system of notation have a sign for "repeat this bit as often
> as you feel like"? The definitive use of that is in Terry Riley's
> "In C", but it occurs implicitly in quite a few genres.
In jazz and related music forms you usually write "rep. ad lib" or
something like that above the repeat sign.
Frank Nordberg
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