Keith,
That's fine and you're quite correct but that's not what we were talking about. Bob Florence was offering advice to another arranger working in a somewhat related field, not proclaiming some Universal Law against Dal Segnos.
Also, even within the confines of what we were talking about, no one's saying "don't use jumpers." I use them all the time in small group music, especially if it means I can keep the part under three pages (i.e., no page turns when the part is taped accordion-style). A jumper may in fact be the best solution in Giz's situation -- who wants to turn pages when you're playing live with a soul band?
On the other hand, if the DS material is short and you can copy and paste it without requiring an additional page turn (or if the jumper itself requires a page turn, or several) that's usually preferable in these cases because -- at least in the jazz/studio world -- musicians are far more likely to make a roadmap mistake when sightreading than any other type of mistake.
"Everything else being equal" is an important qualifier.
- Darcy
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On 02 Jun 2004, at 06:55 PM, Keith Helgesen wrote:
Not using 'DS al Coda' is fine if you have no space constraints. Anyone ever
dealing with marching or standing band - (as in in using marching lyres to
hold music)- has certainly had to limit space- and usually has to do away
with page turns. I often find myself having to put some parts with DS and
some without! - not good a practice, but oft-times unavoidable.
Try getting Florentine March by Fucik on to one march card without DS etc!
Microscopes are hard to carry on the march!!
Cheers, Keith in OZ.
----- Original Message ----- From: David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:45 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Layout question
On 2 Jun 2004 at 10:18, Bob Florence wrote:
I have never used the DS al CODA feature. It is so easy to just copy and paste.
And what about when you then have to make changes to that music after you've entered it? You have to make it in two places.
Secondly, you're losing important information for the performer. Copying the same music obscures the fact that it *is* exactly the same music, something that's immediately clear from a DS or da capo. For a performer to know "this is exactly the same music I played before" can be very helpful, as opposed to "this seems to be very similar to the music I played before."
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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