I am putting together some little booklets of recorder music for my fellow players and others. The first 2 booklets are collections of pieces from the Balkans, and a bunch of Breton tunes, i.e. it's folk music.
I am doing this in Finale and am trying to keep the notation as succinct and economical as I can so there are fewer pages. Many of the pieces are basically built from repetition of sections, for example: ||: a :|| ||: b :|| here means play section b, then repeat it, then play section b. That hopefully is clear enough. But what if the piece is: ||: a :||: b :||: a :||: b :||: a :||:b:|| I don't want to write the music 3 times but want to specify the form using letters at the bottom of the page, with the section names placed above the music notation itself. Here are some alternatives: AA BB AA BB AA BB or just A B A B A B or just A B x 3 (hoping the reader will assume that each "A" or "B" is now just a section indication and the repeats are a part of that content. Now for some pieces I have things like ||:a:||:b:||:b:||:c:|| ||:a:||:b:||:b:||:c:|| ||:d:|| ||:a:||:b:||:b:||:c:|| which, if I leave out the repeats ((they are already represented in the notation anyway, could be reduced to: A BB C A BB C D A BB C using letters. Some people seem to like the repeats re - presented in the letter notation: AA BB BB CC AA BB BB CC DD AA BB BB CC The redundancy offends me a bit. What do people think? The redundancy is good or confusing? Graeme _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
