At 8:49 PM -0400 3/12/09, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 11 Mar 2009 at 17:35, John Howell wrote:
What I do NOT like is the old fashioned way of having to make sure
that a pickup partial-bar is subtracted from the bar at the end of a
section, but that's still sometimes used.
If there's a repeat, how is that avoidable?
Here's an example of avoiding it, and I think it's really confusing:
http://dfenton.com/Teares/Scores/HasslerIntrada.pdf (p. 3)
That's exactly how I'd notate it, and I don't find it confusing at
all. I would, though, omit the 2 rests in the pickup bar, unless the
intent is to notate exactly what Hassler had but in modern clefs.
Something about notating the 2 beats that our leading gives for the
tempo makes it harder to read. And the repeats are harder, too
(though in this case, Hassler begins the piece differently than the
repeat commences). I just don't see what's added by having those half-
note rests there.
In the pickup bar? That's what I said. There's NO need to have them
in that context, and no confusion if they're omitted.
Nice galliard, by the way.
John
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