JC wrote:
>Orchestral scores typically don't have bar numbers at all, just
>huge boxed letters at critical points. People then say things
>like "Go to four bars before "E".
That's not really true. I've been playing the Cello for 40 years
and have been in many orchestras. While the "boxed letters" scheme
referred to above is common (I'd even go along with "most common"),
it is also common to see numbered measures (sometimes in addition
to the boxed letters). The scheme is either:
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
|:abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|[1abc:|[2def||gab|...
or
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 16 17
|:abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|[1abc:|[2def||gab|...
but I've never seen:
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
|:abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|[1abc:|[2def||gab|...
Note that the first measure is generally not numbered. Also,
although all the measures are numbered above for clarity, in
general only the measures at the beginning of the lines or
measures 10n (n = integer) are numbered.
BTW (self-promotion) I was the Piano Puzzle guy on National Public
Radio's "Performance Today" this past Wednesday.
Hear it at:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/pt/20021204.pt.pianopuzzlers.ram
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