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Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives
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Reinhold Kainhofer |
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Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives |
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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:12:17 +0200 |
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Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2008 schrieb Patrick Horgan:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> In my experience, it's fairly uncommon in printed music to have this kind
> of different durations in the two alternatives, so I don't think that it's
> common enough to deserve a specific example in the manual. You may want to
> submit it to the LSR, though.
>
> It's not that uncommon. I've seen it in choral music fairly regularly
> through the years.
All the choral scores that I have seen put the pickup note before the |: and
use whole measures for the voltas (like in the attached example).
> What else are you going to do if there's a pickup note
> and the 2nd ending goes on? You can write the second ending as an end
> followed by a partial pickup, but this solution seems more elegant, and why
> reading voice would certainly be simpler to read. Choirs are filled with
> folks whose reading skills are minimal to nonexistant.
Exactly, that's why voltas typically span whole measures...
Cheers,
Reinhold
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