On 8 September 2010 10:05, Mark Probert <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not 100% sure how that would work in practice. For example, many > of the pieces seem to be in an A-B form with a lyric like [1]: > > Mortels, mettes fin a vos larmes, > Calmes vos coeurs ramplis d'allarmes [repeat mark] > [petit reprise] Le ciel rit a vos desirs, > Et l'air gracieux vous promet mile plaisirs [double bar + two chords] > > And then there is a second verse of four lines, obviously to be done in > the same pattern.
The first section can be repeated, but I think the double barline with dots in between does not neccecarily mean a repeat sign. Don´t let your ´modern eye´ and your being used to modern notational conventions fool you. It could just be a nicely ornamented double barline signifying the end of part one. But, yes, I would repeat. AABB feels like a good French early Baroque form, and it doesn´t hurt to get the text across twice. The very, very last measure, after the final double barline, is what in modern notation would be called the first ending. Play that when you go back to the inverted question mark with double dots. Which is the repeat sign. It is also used for petite reprises, as Arto pointed out, but for ´normal´ repeats too. What´s in a name, anyway. The second ending is the measure before the final double bar. The chord with the fermata on top. You´ll have to skip that the first time round, but play it the second time, then stop at the double bar. Take a breath and continuo with the second verse. Confusing, this reversal of first and second ending. Confusing to our modern eye, that is. Second verse on the facing page will get the same treatment. Beautiful songs, you should sing them! David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
