As this whole repeat thing is one of my pet peeves, I'm now going to mount
my soapbox.
Realizing that in some circumstances repeats may be necessary or even
preferable, I believe that in most cases they are outdated. Since music no
longer needs to be hand copied, it make little sense to use these
old-fashioned short cuts. Just copy and paste.
Although many won't tell you unless you ask pretty directly, most orchestral
musicians would much rather just play straight through. The less we have to
expend precious mental resources on not being lost or confused, the more we
have to use on music making. More mistakes (especially in rehearsal) are
made at the "seams" in the music than anywhere else so don't put in extra
ones. Especially the complex nested types.
End of rant.
Richard Smith
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Christopher Smith wrote:
On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote:
When looking at a part where there are for example full bar rests in both
first and second ending, it makes sense in a way but it looks a
bit...unnecessary...or even a bit funny perhaps.
I know Darcy got to you within minutes (he must smell these questions
coming from the computer while he's asleep!) but I just wanted to add my
weight to his answer. I assure you, experienced readers don't find it
funny at all to have empty 1st and 2nd endings. They are completely
normal.
Would it be advicable to make the parts so that only instruments with
differences have these different endings, while others don't?
Not only not advisable, but a bit kludgy to accomplish.
Or would it
be better to anyway, for rehearsal simplicity, make all parts equal in
this aspects?
The last thing you want is to say in rehearsal "Take it at the second
ending" and have half the band say, "What?" The aspect of Finale that
forces you to have the same roadmap between all parts and the score has
probably saved more rehearsal time worldwide than any other single thing I
can point to.
Now, I don't honestly even know if Finale 2007 supports to have different
ending setup for different parts. Does it?
You need to preserve measure numbering so that it is the same, which
involves editing measure regions, you have to do this on extracted parts,
not linked parts, etc., etc. My advice is don't bother.
Christopher
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