On 23 Mar 2007 at 8:30, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 22.03.2007 dhbailey wrote: > > Nobody needs to number Baroque dance movements because the sections > > are so short that it's easy for everybody to find the 9th measure of > > the second section. > > What? That's ridiculous. > > You get 24 measure sections, 32 measure sections. Do you want your > rehearsal to stop while everyone goes "1...2...3.......17"?
Yes, and the B sections can be the same length as the A, twice the length, or some other length. Second, in movements other than binary forms, there are often more than two repeated sections, and the more sections there are, the more variability there is in section length. It's very often the case that you'll have a piece if 4 sections, 3 of which are 8 bars each, repeated, and one of which is 16 bars, no repeat, because there's written-out variation of the repeat. This kind of thing happens *all the time*. While it's usually the case that the sections are some multiple of 4 bars, you can never tell for certain without some looking whether it's 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 or what. The longer the section, the more pages it will span, and the harder it is to tell just by looking what the length is. So, yes, I agree that David Bailey's suggestion is not very good advice. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
