Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:
>>> (my pet hate is the bar lines all above one another straight down the page!)
>
>> dance musicians usually really appreciate a format in
>> which sections and major phrases start on a new staff, and
>> corresponding parts of phrases line up vertically....
>> Dance musicians are usually very much aware of rhythm and
>> phrasing, and if this these correspond closely to the position of the
>> notes on the page, then keeping your place is a lot easier.
>
> But you can have four or eight measures/bars on every line (so that the
> phrases and sections are clear) and still not have the bar lines line up
> exactly. FINALE does note-spacing, so the different measures/bars are
> different lengths and you can adjust them to look nice. Not to mention,
> the pickup notes usually make sure the bar lines don't line up exactly
> anyway. BTW in the pipe books I have (admittedly only a few), the bar
> lines aren't all lined up the way somebody claimed they were.
>
I've played violin for about 35 years now, both classical and folk, and have
to admit I never consciously noticed how the bars lined up until I started
reading this thread! And now that I do notice, it really doesn't make much
difference to me either way :-) -Steve
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