Darcy James Argue wrote:
There's a actually a much better way to get repeats on some staves but not others -- create the repeat as usual, and then hide the repeat on selected staves as needed using a Staff Style.
My trick using the Chord Tool to fake repeats is designed more for aleatoric or partially aleatoric music. We used to call them "mobiles" although I haven't heard anyone use that term lately. I'll be posting an example soon.
Sometimes you want a player or grouping to ad lib on a motif or rhythm or whatever. That motif is either smaller or larger than a regular measure that others are playing so the brackets have to be moveable to places besides bar lines. (I know that you can hide bar lines and time signatures if necessary, but you get my point.)
Lutoslawski used this "controlled" aleatoric technique extensively, although his notation is different than what I like to use. Mobiles are one way to achieve complex textures without the notation being terribly complex. A composer can make them tightly controlled or freely improvisatory. They don't make you sound like you are writing music from the 60s unless you want them to sound that way.
I wish more music teachers would include this kind of thing in their lessons. Classical music (and the teaching of it) became more impoverished when it tried to eliminate improvisation in its various forms. There are signs that it might be making a comeback, however...
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