On Feb 14, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Peter Chubb wrote:
"Tim" == Tim McNamara <[email protected]> writes:
Tim> On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Peter Chubb wrote:
Is there a sane way to do this?
Tim> Thinking as a player, I'd rather see this as a coda
It's only one bar in the middle. I'd like to
get it onto one page --- the only obvious to me alternative would mean
repeating the verse music after the repeat, so you'd have:
|: verse ... | normal_ending || chorus ... :| verse ... |
final_ending ||
The song structure is verse-chorus-verse-and-end, correct? Basically
ABA' structure. Using a coda should not take any more space on the
page and IMHO would be more readable:
||: Verse... coda mark | normal_ending || chorus... markup "D.C. al
Coda":||
| coda mark final_ending... markup "fine" ||
This is what codas are often used for, in jazz at least; probably
half of the songs I play have something like this. Having a bar I'd
have to skip in the middle of the score would be problematic IMHO- it
interrupts the visual flow of information and introduces a higher
likelihood of errors in reading. It's best to put the end of the
song at the end of the page, in most cases (there are exceptions like
the AABA format if it is just scored as AAB with D.C. al Fine noted
at the end of the B section; "Con Alma" by Dizzy Gillepsie in the
Real Book springs to mind as an example).
This is perhaps not an issue in a piece that is going to be rehearsed
and possibly even memorized before it is performed. In jazz I am
often playing a song that I've never seen before and possibly have
never heard (or at least don't remember very well), so lack of
ambiguity and obvious intent is essential to me. Someone arranging a
chart for church music or a classical group might see this differently.
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