On 25 May 2010 at 22:25, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >OK, I get it now. I hadn't actually looked at the *music* to realize > >this is not a standard rounded binary menuet. The menuet itself has > >to be played AABBAA, which is indicated by the lower Da Capo at the > >end. That it ends at the end of A is indicated by the fermata. > > > >I think the Menuet i Da Capo is simply misplaced and should be at the > >"Fine," i.e., at the fermata, at the end of A. > > > >If you took the Menuet i Da Capo literally, it would make the Da Capo > >and fermata meaningless, so it is surely just misplaced. > > Thanks. That's basically my interpretation (except that I think B nor > the second A should be repeated: AABA and then back to Menuet 1.)
I would compare the first and second menuets to see if they have repeat dots at the end. Even if they don't, I'm not sure it wasn't simply conventional to repeat all parts, even on the da capo. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
