On 10 Dec 2008 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 preferable, I believe that in most cases they are outdated.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.
That works fine if you're *done* with the music. However, I find that almost any score, whether composed/arranged by me or copied from some other source, needs tweaking after it's been "finalized." That means making the changes in more than one place for music that is identical. > 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. Well, I can agree on complex nested repeates, but simple ABA, or ||:A:||:B:||, really shouldn't need to have the repeats written out. The only exception would be to avoid page unwieldy turns, seems to me. I am all for using repeats to indicate form, as long as that's not going to make it more complicated than the forms I just mentioned. -- 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
