James Allwright wrote:
>
> On Tue 18 Dec 2001 at 01:00PM +0000, Erik Ronstr�m wrote:
> > Consider "standard" music notation:
> >
> > My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two
> > dots (:), and always coincided with a bar line.
>
> An interesting theory, but I don't buy it because your symbol is
> symmetrical and so you can't tell the difference between a start
> repeat and a end repeat.
That's right, James.
Nevertheless from a historical point of view, Erik is more or less
correct. The repeat sign started off simply as a divider between the
sections of a piece of music. The player was supposed to just know which
parts to repeat.
Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
P.S. Sorry for jumping iinto an old - and possibly dead - discussion.
I've been away on vacation and haven't read my e mail for a while.
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