Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Son_V" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular


> > If a piece starts with an incomplete measure this measure doesn't have a
> number
>
> Well, thanks. I've searched on "beyond bars" 2011 ed. but I wasn't able to
> find a reference to this problem. Nor I was able to found a way in the
> index: no "irregular beats". Maybe it's hidden in another chapter.
> But I thought I should make like I saw in the score I'm transcribing (and 
> I
> admit I'm only a beginner, a newbie). And that should mean that some
> commercial sheet music are realized without respecting some basic rules, 
> and
> that they can confuse a beginner like me; isn't it, what do you say? 
> Thanks
> again.


The rule for setting music is that a bar that is just an upbeat, or 
anacrusis, does not count for bar numbering.  The first bar is the first 
full bar.

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Phil Holmes