On 22 Mar 2010 at 23:22, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Maybe it's my early music background, but for one particular > > situation, I see no issue with it, and that's an ABA where the 2nd > > ending starts the B section, and 1st ending is the FINE for the > > repeat of the A section. I just don't see how that's confusing at > > all. Then again, it's a very familiar roadmap for music before 1800.
I was kind of confused (it's been a long day, with a long rehearsal this evening) when I wrote that. An AABA would be more like it. > I must admit that this was my first reaction as well, but upon further > reflection I realized that I have seldom, if ever, seen ending signs and > brackets used in this idiom. More commonly I have seen the first A > section, and the B section written out in full, with no repeat brackets, > but with a DC or DS at the end of the B section, and the end of the > composition after the reprise of the A section indicated by either a > fermata, or the word "fine". In a standard ABA (da capo aria, for instance), there's no 1st/2nd ending, of course, since the A is not repeated. But here's a part that wouldn't be confusing if the A section repeated after the B: http://tearesofthemuses.com/Editions/Parts/Schein- ChristUnserHerr/Schein-ChristUnserHerr0.pdf To be clear, this piece does *not* reprise the first section, but if it did, it wouldn't be unclear at all. And if you wrote it out, it would require another page, so I think it's a virtue for a number of reasons to write it out as originally outlined. But it does raise the question of how to notate the repeat of the 1st ending, either as 1, 3 with FINE or as just 1 with FINE. I'm not sure on that, to be honest. -- 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
