At 3:43 PM -0400 6/6/10, Christopher Smith wrote:
I run into this kind of thing all the time in my music. It is very
common in jazz, for example, in drum and percussion parts.
You can write the pattern once, then as many .//. signs as will fit
onto the system, then restate the pattern at the start of the next
system. Clinton Roemer suggests this. I think it is essential that
every measure played be visible, so a sign like " .//. play 59
times" would not be acceptable.
I agree completely, but one thing I actually HATE is having the
pattern repeated at the start of every system. If it's a repeated
pattern it's a repeated pattern, and the number of repeats should not
start over. There is, however, a good argument for repeating the
pattern at rehearsal letters, if the rehearsal letters are at places
when the ensemble might be asked to start there.
Actually I can't find that in Roemer, at least not in Chapter 6.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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of jazz musicians.
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