Christopher, Thank you. Your first suggestion -- to me anyway -- seems to be most straight-forward. I was hoping to do everything in two pages. Repeating B at the end will make that difficult. The alternative is mixing the DS/Fine and repeats. Since this is a song, and as such is less likely to be read by well trained musicians, clarity trumps conservation of ink and paper.
/Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] Repeats: A-B-C-B-C-D I think David was suggesting a D.S. al Fine IN ADDITION to a normal repeat. I agree with you that most sight-reading musicians I know would question a DS that goes back to an existing repeat, or be confused by it, even though it IS pretty clear. I know of two other ways to accomplish what you want. If it were me, I would put the repeat around the first B and C, then simply copy the last B to come afterwards, thus A ||: B C :|| B which is certainly the clearest and least confusing way to go, though it takes more paper. The other way would be to use endings (which play back correctly also) like this ______ ____ A ||: B 1.2. C :|| 3. Fine If that isn't clear, there is a 1st and 2nd ending over the C section, and the 3rd ending only has a last note in it. If the C section is very long, this might end up being more confusing than my first method, as I don't like to make endings longer than about 8 measures. Possibly this might work too, though I have no idea about how to make it play back properly, unless you hit Stop manually 3Xs Fine 3rd X A ||: B C :|| Christopher On Apr 9, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Jim Mays wrote: > I am not quite following you, David. With a simple segno (at the > beginning > of B) and D.S. al Fine (at the end of B), I would only get a single > repeat > of B. > > Can I "mix modes" using both begin/end repeat bar lines and textual > repeat > instructions such as D.S. al Fine? > > If I used a "begin repeat" bar line at the beginning of B, an "end > repeat" > bar line at the end of C, that would insure the first B-C repeat. If I > also > placed "Fine" at the end of B, and a "D.S. al Fine" at the end of C > (to be > recognized only after 2nd playing of C) wouldn't that be both ugly and > confusing? > > /Jim Mays > > Jim Mays wrote: > >> I have a song with three different sections: A, B and C. >> A is sung once; B, three times; and C, twice in this order: >> A-B-C-B-C-B. >> The first repeat, B-C, is straightforward. What repeat signs >> instructions >> to Finale do I use to go back and "sing" B one last time? >> >> I'd like to be able to play it back that way too. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim Mays > > D.S. al Fine, and place the Fine at the end of the B section. As a > target measure for the Fine, in order to get the song to stop, you can > either enter 0 or you can enter a number one higher than the number of > the final measure. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
