Re: Can't have rehearsal mark and segno mark at same moment

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-08-09 8:01 pm, Dan Eble wrote:
> The marks that \repeat segno creates are intended to identify points
> of repetition and departure for performance.  Having one of those, I
> do not understand why one would want to identify the same point with a
> second mark for rehearsal.

Surely this is about providing more information.  A segno or coda mark 
is just a flag in the ground, whereas rehearsal marks can help clarify 
the context of the piece.

In my own work (still on 2.22), I use rehearsal marks to label the main 
sections of the piece ("Verses", "Chorus", etc.).  It is easy for me to 
then say to my singers "let's run the chorus again" or "pick it up a 
measure before the bridge".

Now a very common pattern is for the chorus of a song to get repeated 
after a bridge.  Assuming I do not have the room to just duplicate the 
chorus inline, this often requires using a D.S. instruction and placing 
both the "Chorus" section label and a segno mark at the same point in 
the song.  I handle this manually right now by creating one mark that 
combines the content of both items.


-- Aaron