On Dec 2, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I really, really hate to disagree with Chuck, but he's quite wrong here, at least when it comes to manuscript practice. A double left barline (in addition to the double right barline in the preceding measure) when a new section begins on a new system is *absolutely standard* in manuscript practice. It's recommended in Clinton Roemer's _The Art of Music Copying_, and it's been widely used in hand-copied music -- and computer-copied music that follows in that tradition -- for decades. Almost all jazz and B'way charts do this. In fact, this feature was added to Finale at my request -- and, I can only assume, the request of *many* other people who require this style.
This is much too broad an assertion. Double left barlines are just plain wrong in classical notation, hand-copied or not. And in fact left barlines of any kind are wrong in single-staff extracted parts in the classical tradition.
There are a great many ways in which jazz notation and engraving conventions differ from classical ones, and it behooves all of us to bear this in mind before making absolute assertions as to what's right and what's wrong.
When I started using Finale 13 years ago, I had no notion at all that these differences existed. When I saw that provision was made for a left barline on single staves--indeed, that it was the default, in those days--I thought, "How could the programmers be so dumb? This is illiterate!" I was wrong, of course--and so is Darcy.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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