Mike McGowan wrote:
Many of the old marches (certainly the ragtime marches) used an unusual
repeat system: the first strain has a first ending, second ending which
moves to the 2nd strain, and a fine' ending. After the third strain, one
will D.S. back to the first strain and take the fine' ending. Although this
seems simple, three endings after the first strain blew my little community
college group away for the first few rehearsals.
Consequently, modern editions of these old marches will "write out" the last
return to A instead of a D.S. (I think somebody mentioned doing this in an
earlier posting.)
The other ending setup that blows away members of my
otherwise quite competent community band is when there is a
1st ending without a repeat, and a 2nd ending which is most
often the Fine ending. People have gotten so used to the
fact that most 1st endings have repeats at the end of them
that they've come to equate the 1st ending bracket with the
repeat and don't even bother to look for the repeat sign at
the end of the ending. Even after I've explained it a
couple of times it takes a couple of broken run-throughs
before everybody gets the idea.
And that's compounded when the 1st ending is actually a 1st
and 2nd ending combined and the 3rd ending is the Fine
ending because the final strain is supposed to be played
twice with a D.S. both times.
--
David H. Bailey
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