Re: Do brackets always result in barlines?

[Mats Bengtsson]

One obvious exception in LilyPond is ChoirStaff. But, maybe you
are asking about general notation practice?

  /Mats

Trevor Bača wrote:

> Question:
>
> Is it always the case that staves that bracket together (with flared
> brackets, square brackets, piano braces, whatever) also always *bar*
> together?
>
> There are two obvious exceptions:
>
> 1. The "global" bracket that (about half the time) groups together the
> entire orchestra obviously doesn't result in barlines stretching
> through the entire orchestra; examples are Varèse's Intégrales, Dalla
> piccola's Piccola musica notturna, Boulez's Marteau sans maître, etc.
>
> 2. Scores without barlines may still have brackets; Babbit's
> Post-Partitions is four staves for the piano, witha  bracket but
> (almost) no barlines.
>
> But aside from these two exceptions, is it the case that brackets
> *always* result in barlines? Or is the generalization false?
>
>
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