Christopher Smith wrote:
On 4-Feb-07, at 1:06 AM, Carl Dershem wrote:
Has anyone any experience creating a function staff style for a 4- bar
repeat symbol? I know it muct be possible, but
Sorry to respond only in the negative, but I always changed the 4 bars
to blank notation and added the 4-bar repeat as a measure- attached
expression (only on this staff.)
A few points to consider:
The expression can be made auto-positioning, so it becomes a one- click
deal (well, actually just very few clicks.)
There is no standard for 4-bar repeats, in fact all authorities reject
them. (This doesn't stop me from using them anyway when they are
clearer than the alternative!) People sometimes attach them over the
middle barline of TWO measures, instead of four. I consider that having
FOUR measures clearly visible is an extremely important cue, whereas it
is contradictory to have only TWO measures visible when it is supposed
to be a four-measure repeat. But then if you have more than one (and
let's face it, if you were only going to use ONE four- bar repeat, you
would be better off just writing out the passage again!) it become hard
to be clear about where the repeated measures start and end. For
example, if you had two of them on a single system (not out of the
question if the issue is saving space), you would be faced with EIGHT
measures, all of them blank, with the 4-measure repeat straddling the
2nd and 3rd measures and the 6th and 7th measures. I would love to put
in a heavy barline or something to separate them, but there is no
precedent. Maybe a horizontal bracket, bracketting the four measures?
Or else just ONLY ever put them alone on a system, which again is not
recommended by any authority.
That being said, I think it might be possible to make the four measures
into a multimeasure rest, then edit it so that the horizontal beam is
actually the 4-measure repeat symbol (only available TTBOMK in the
JazzFont.) This will look like one measure, not even two or four, as
you will be missing the barlines, but you could add in a middle barline
manually so that at least it looks like two measures. I don't recommend
this solution, for the reasons I stated before.
Christopher
Thanks, Christopher.
Yeah, those are valid concerns, but I have a piece that has what almost
amounts to a repeating "ground", and just to save paper it would be much
easier and cheaper to fill in the figure once, and then put two //4//
figures per system, to let the player just count them (or number them).
As it *is* a jazz piece (of sorts), I might try the solution you
suggested but ... still thinking about it. :)
Thanks.
cd
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