> BUT, I am very excited by the proposal that ends of sections be > markable with ']' because this is necessary to get away from the idea > that conditional material only occurs at the *ends* of repeated > sections. There are quite a few Highland pipe tunes in which a single > bar in the middle of a repeated section is varied the second time > around. [...]
> |: AA | BB | [1C][2A]C | DD :| % ie., a section need not be a whole bar This is common in classical music as well - usually it's isolated notes that have variants, not whole bars. A further generalization: in classical music you may well find isolated variant notes scattered through a repeated section: |: AA | BB | [1C][2A]C | DD [1E][2F]G | HH:| which would be equivalent to: | AA | BB | CC | DD EG | HH | | AA | BB | AC | DD FG | HH | Trying to figure out "just what is different between these two apparently identical chunks of score that they aren't simply written as a repeat?" is often a pain in the bum with scores written using ABC as it is now. Particularly if you're trying to memorize the piece. Implementation of the above idea is probably easier for player software than for formatters. A formatter would usually have to align the variant notes vertically and find some way of placing numerals beside them without conflicting with something else (you see a lot of scores where the numerals were obviously added last). =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
