On 23 Mar 2010 at 6:34, dhbailey wrote: > dc wrote: > > What's the clearest way to write an |:A:|BACA piece if I don't write out > > in full the three A sections (to avoid page turns). The original simply > > has "Da Capo" at the end of B and C, and a fermata on the last note of A. > > People with experience in the music of the period you're > working from will understand, others might be confused,
This will include a fair portion of the early music folks, including me. When I was writing my posts on repeats yesterday I had in my head "except the rondeau, which I can't wrap my head around without it being written out." For what it's worth, last semester my viol consort had two Purcell rondeaus in its repertory and the editions we used wrote them all out. This made it somewhat harder to rehearse, as the players did not notice immediately that it was a verbatim repeat, but we quickly got past that. Actually, the layout in both cases was: |:A:|BAC ...with da capo at the end of the C and FINE at the end of the A, raising the question in early rehearsals of whether the last A was repeated. > but > I agree that you don't need to write out the A section each > time it recurs. I would definitely agree with this, at least as ABAC, and if there's room without page turns, the final A. > I'd use the letters A, B, C as the rehearsal markings at the > start of each section. > > Then I'd write the A section with the repeat, then the B > section followed by D.C. senza replice, then the C section > with D.C. al Fine (the Fine being marked at the end of the A > section.) > > I'd also include a text box above the first staff with > something like: > > The form of this movement is: A A B A C A > > in order to make the form perfectly clear. Interestingly enough, this is precisely the way my consort normally marks up our parts/scores when we have a roundeau that is not written out. And it's still confusing. -- 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
