Patrick Sheehan wrote:
Da Capos and D.S.'s should be outlawed. Why not just write it out again? Less confusion, I say.
You don't play outdoor concerts where breezes make limiting the number of pages open for any one piece a good thing, do you?
Da Capo and D.S. should provide no more confusion than any other element of notation. The only reason that working with older music, printed or in manuscript, makes them confusing is that the people who were writing the music never expected it to be played 200 or 300 years later and wrote it out in a manner that the musicians of their day would already expect.
And there's a very good chance that the composer expected to be part of any performance so it would be very simple to tell everybody how the road map works, just like jazz and blues bands do now for head arrangements: Everybody on the head, then tenor, trumpet, alto, piano, bass, drums and then everybody on the head again -- one, two, one, two, three, four.
Imagine what sort of nightmares musicologists in the 30th century will have trying to decipher how those lead-sheets would have been performed!
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