Bernard Hill writes:
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim
| >The & operator may be used to temporarily overlay
| >several voices within one measure. The & operator
| >separates these voices from each other. Example:
| >
| >A2 E2 G2 A2|A B c d e f g a & A A A A A A A A & A G F E
| >D C B, A,|]
| >
| >
|
| So what does that mean?

You first have to undo the line wrapping.  ;-) Then you get
something that is equivalent to:

[V:1] A2 E2 G2 A2 | A B c d e f g  a |]
[V:2]             | A A A A A A A  A |]
[V:3]             | A G F E D C B, A,|]

This should all be on one staff, of course.  With only  two
bars, it's not very motivating.  But if you only have a few
bars like this in a larger piece of music, it can save  you
a lot of typing and futzing with two voices that are mostly
silent.

(For some reason, this example  reminds  me  of  the  piano
piece  by  Mozart, which ended with widely separated chords
for the left and right hands, plus one note in  the  middle
to be played with your nose.)

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