Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
If you are going to write out the repeat sign so that each individual bar is visible, I would suggest also numbering the bars every so often and personally, I would appreciate it if somewhere it told me exactly how many bars were repeated - I usually pencil that on myself when faced with such

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, June 6, 2010 9:49 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: If you literally mean counting to 60, I disagree, preferring instead to count to 12 five times, or 15 four times. In my experience, large counts are more likely lead to miscounting than repeating smaller ones. This topic is interesting to

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-07 Thread Harold Owen
Dennis, If this is something like Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna I think I would write out the part and include above it a reduced staff with continuous cues. Hal Owen I have a ciaconna bass of two measures that is repeated over 60 times. What would be the proper way to abbreviate this in a

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Jun 2010 at 20:16, dc wrote: I have a ciaconna bass of two measures that is repeated over 60 times. What would be the proper way to abbreviate this in a separate part using the .//. sign? Does each repetition have to appear and be numbered, or this there a way of only having the

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread John Howell
At 8:16 PM +0200 6/6/10, dc wrote: I have a ciaconna bass of two measures that is repeated over 60 times. What would be the proper way to abbreviate this in a separate part using the .//. sign? Does each repetition have to appear and be numbered, or this there a way of only having the

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sun Jun 6, at SundayJun 6 2:16 PM, dc wrote: I have a ciaconna bass of two measures that is repeated over 60 times. What would be the proper way to abbreviate this in a separate part using the .//. sign? Does each repetition have to appear and be numbered, or this there a way of only

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
dc wrote: I know Ted Ross says this is used very seldom in published music, and I wrote out the whole part myself. But this is a suggestion I've been asked to follow... If the one making the suggestion is the one who is going to be realizing the part, I'd ask him or her exactly what they

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread John Howell
At 2:35 PM -0500 6/6/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: dc wrote: I know Ted Ross says this is used very seldom in published music, and I wrote out the whole part myself. But this is a suggestion I've been asked to follow... If the one making the suggestion is the one who is going to be realizing

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread John Howell
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

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sun Jun 6, at SundayJun 6 4:42 PM, John Howell wrote: 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

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Jun 2010 at 16:31, John Howell wrote: At 2:35 PM -0500 6/6/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: dc wrote: I know Ted Ross says this is used very seldom in published music, and I wrote out the whole part myself. But this is a suggestion I've been asked to follow... If the one making the

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread John Howell
At 4:53 PM -0400 6/6/10, Christopher Smith wrote: On Sun Jun 6, at SundayJun 6 4:42 PM, John Howell wrote: Actually I can't find that in Roemer, at least not in Chapter 6. Look in Chapter 15. He says to rewrite the pattern on each new system, so the eye doesn't have to jump back a line.

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sun Jun 6, at SundayJun 6 6:31 PM, John Howell wrote: I much prefer to have a complete phrase, between two structural rehearsal letters, on a line, if it fits without crowding. I've long done that with drum parts, giving instructions like Play 24 bars same, which in a way speaks to

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
dc wrote: I think it's much easier to count to 60 than to try to follow the same pattern line after line over more than one page. If you literally mean counting to 60, I disagree, preferring instead to count to 12 five times, or 15 four times. In my experience, large counts are more likely