On Sun, 19 May 2002 20:43:27 -0700, you wrote: >You'd think after a hundred years of writing music and copying >manuscripts I'd know this, but when I was asked today, and gave "my" >answer, it made me think: Is this right??? Help me, o list gurus. > >I generally do not call a pickup measure "measure 1" but start the >numbering at the first full measure. I just went through a bunch of >scores, but all have rehearsal numbers and no measure numbers, or the >few that do, by some quirk of fate, all begin on the downbeat with >full measures. All my orchestration books, band scoring books, >notation books, etc. have no reference to this. > >Anyone out there have the gospel according to whomever? Do I need to >call my pickup measure "measure one"? > >Thanks, all. > >Linda Worsley >
Well, well, interesting question. I would have thought certainly the first full measure counts as No.1. But I just checked about a dozen scores, and they are divided. Most don't count the pick-ups as a measure. Barenrieter and Haydn Mozart Press Haydn, Mozart and Bach scores don't count the pick up. Neither does a Norton Critical score of a Bach Cantata. But all Bartok scores count the pick-up measure, even if it's just an 8th note. Universal Webern score does not count pick-up, even when it's half a measure (Op. 5/II), and Eulenberg Berlioz Nuits d'Ete does not count the anacruses. Nor does the Prelude to Tristan. Thinking the Bartok might be a Boosey thing, I checked Respighi's Rachmaninoff transcriptions, and, well, they all start on the beat. Universal: Berio "Circles" whoops, no bar lines. Ah, here we go, Boosey again Holst's Planets . . . darn, all on the beat again. The rest of my Boosey scores, Britten, Stravinsky, etc are no help. And you're right, the majority use rehearsal numbers/letters. Well, I wasn't much help, but I do think the majority favors NOT counting the anacrusis. But, is counting it a Bartok thing, or a Boosey thing? Now I gotta know! I have about a thousand more scores to go through, but I think thius sample is probably pretty representative, especially considering the ones I didn't mention. Ken _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
