At 8:16 PM +0200 6/6/10, dc wrote:
I have a ciaconna bass of two measures that is repeated over 60
times. What would be the proper way to abbreviate this in a separate
part using the .//. sign? Does each repetition have to appear and be
numbered, or this there a way of only having the repetition sign
once with a number indicating how many times the pattern is to be
repeated?
We ran into this in a piece by Sibelius (the composer, not the
program!), in which a number of 2- or 4-bar repetitions were
accompanied by obscure rubrics, and it totally baffled us until the
conductor figured it out. And even then it was difficult to count
and keep track, because the number of repetitions changed from one to
the next. In other words, it is non-standard, and faces all the same
problems as any non-standard notation.
What's necessary in a chaconne is some kind of clue as to what's
happening in the other parts, not just how many repeats, because it's
MUCH too easy to lose track until you've memorized the other parts by
ear. So if you could give a middle section with clearly-indicated
multiple repeats and then an ending section with cues or maybe an
ossiah line, that would solve that problem.
I know Ted Ross says this is "used very seldom in published music",
and I wrote out the whole part myself. But this is a suggestion I've
been asked to follow...
Yeah. There's really no good answer.
John
P.S. You'd better buy a Kevlar vest. Your cellist will want to
shoot you!!! Even the Pachelbel is only 47 times. Handel was the
real master of this, because he would vary the ground from time to
time. Purcell, too. They both kept their players' mental health in
mind.
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:[email protected])
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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