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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preferable, I believe that in most cases they are outdated.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
[1]http://www.rgsmithmusic.com
Christopher Smith wrote:
[snip]
Richard's rant is fine to a point, and it is important to
note that he is saying "most orchestral musicians." For
some reason they never got the practice that band musicians
get for playing music with repeats, although with all those
minuets in Haydn and Mozart I don't understand how they
missed that lesson. However, in their defense, it's the
repeats in longer movements such as the first or final
movements in major works, where the repeat goes back over
several pages, that cause the most problems.
But for goodness' sake, in band music which may very well be
played outdoors, the fewer page turns the better! There's
nothing worse than having to flip the paper over (including
messing with clothespins or windclips). Far better in band
music to use repeats when you can and keep the music on
fewer pages.
Jazz bands seem not to have problems with repeats, DC / DS,
codas, etc.
No musician, in my opinion, should have any problem with any
of that stuff, assuming (of course) that the form is easy to
see and clearly marked with large symbols.
Imagine a Strauss waltz such as Tales From the Vienna Woods
written out in straight form from start to end -- each part
would be 30 pages long! Why deforest North America simply
because the musicians can't figure out the form? ;-)
--
David H. Bailey
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