At 6:25 PM -0400 3/21/07, Darcy James Argue wrote:
My own feeling is that measure numbers refer to measures on the PAGE. So each individual measure, no matter how many times it is played, gets one and only one measure number, and that number is the same number in the score and all the parts.
Yes, I agree with this completely, IF AND ONLY IF the numbering is exactly the same in score and all parts. Every measure needs to have one and only one unique identifier in any context I can think of.
BUT, where you get into trouble is with sloppy copying and multiple revisions, as those of us involved with Broadway musical scores and partbooks have inevitably tripped over. There was one point in "King & I"--and I can't recall which number it was in--where some part books had a repeat, others had the repeat written out, and neither one matched the piano-vocal score. That's the mark of quick and dirty copying where some shortcuts are taken because they can be, without considering the overall effect. We stumbled over that particularly bad example when we were asked to make a cut involving that section--a real mess and an unnecessary waste of rehearsal time!!!
John
So, in your example, the measure under the first ending is m.16, the measure under the second ending is m.17, and the first measure following the second ending is m.18.
Agreed. Bar numbers are to speed up rehearsals, not to outline musical form!! John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
