On May 28, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Richard Yates wrote:
You almost have it correct. You shouldn't reverse the 2nd and 1st
endings ever, in my opinion.
But you can make the first ending be one measure, then have 1st ending
and 2nd ending but without a repeat sign in the 1st ending. People
would continue on to play the music which follows the 2nd ending (the
page-and-a-half B section), then D.C. to play the page-and-a-half A
section) and skip the 1-bar 1st ending and play the 1-bar 2nd ending.
David H. Bailey
Thanks, David. Do you mean like this:
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/ABA.gif ?
I am sure that is standard, but is it not also more complicated?
Two replies said that the top example was 'confusing'. Could someone
say
what is confusing about it? Aside from it being unusual, after looking
at it
is there any chance of someone actually misunderstanding the intent?
I understand that if the situation were someone, or a band,
sightreading
along for the first time in performance and coming across this
unexpectedly
it would likely trip them up, but that circumstance would never occur
with
this music.
The ending that is played first should ALWAYS come first. It is
confusing the way you wrote it because it is unusual, and that should
be reason enough not to write it that way.
There is nothing strange about having extended first or second endings,
nor about having a first or second ending that is only one measure. We
see those things all the time. If you don't like the idea of jumping a
page to get to the second ending, then write a DS al Coda instead,
where that kind of thing is rampant. (I imagine a DS al Fine won't work
for some reason; the content of the second ending is different in some
way? This would eliminate the whole jumping around problem.)
Christopher
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