Dear Mats, Bertalan and Graham,
Flooded with and surprised by instant reactions, I've given the problem (or
is it a bug?) some more thought. Two points of view are possible:
1. The Programmer's view. A measure of music, like any other object in
programming, should have a unique number. No
Paul de Bruin wrote:
Dear Mats, Bertalan and Graham,
Flooded with and surprised by instant reactions, I've given the
problem (or is it a bug?) some more thought. Two points of view are
possible:
1. The Programmer's view. A measure of music, like any other object in
programming, should
Mats Bengtsson wrote:
However, I just looked in a book on music typesetting (Noter, by B. Tyboni,
which unfortunately only is available in Swedish), which says that it is most
common to do what you propose, namely to use the same measure numbers both in
the first and second ending. Still,
Op zaterdag 27-06-2009 om 14:54 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Mats
Bengtsson:
I could also imagine the conductors view at a rehearsal.
Still, the
formulation most common indicates that both strategies are used.
Right, so this could be a choice. From my experience in an
orchestra, it often
Op zaterdag 27-06-2009 om 14:54 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Mats
Bengtsson:
I could also imagine the conductors view at a rehearsal.
Actually I think repeating the bar numbers can make it easier for a conductor
because bar 17 (say) always follows bar 16 both first and second time.
