Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

[Hans Aberg]

On 7 Aug 2009, at 08:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Here an example from Brahms Gesamtausgabe, Haydn Variations, which
> demonstrates what I mean.

I have looked into some Bulgarian sheet music, and they do the same as  
in Hindemith and in your example:
1. If the meter shift occurs at a staff break, the staff lines before  
the break gets a courtesy time signature at the very end (without a  
following bar).
2. The time signature appears outside the repeats, although one may  
have to put one inside if the repeat ends in a different meter than it  
started with (so if the eye follows the expansion, one should be able  
to read the correct meter changes).

So in the :||: situation, one separates the bars and puts the time  
signature between them. Or at least in the case I looked at.

  Hans