Re: Section repeat

[Hans Åberg]

> On 3 Feb 2017, at 19:02, Flaming Hakama by Elaine <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > in that 2 needs a repeat barline at the end of the measures,
> > you need one alternative each.
> 
> Eh? Are you telling me that I can't write the first rendition
> any more because, in the second, only 1 needs a repeat barline
> at the end of the measure, and 2 *mustn't* have one?
> 
> 
> I was suggesting what I thought was the clearest approach.
> I didn't mean to imply that you could not combine them.
>  
> IOW what you seem to be saying is that writing ":|." at the
> end of a measure means that under no circumstances should you
> continue past that barline to the next measure—so my first
> rendition generates an infinite loop.
> 
> I can see how you might infer that from my suggestion.
> However, that it not my claim.
> 
> I agree that there is nothing musically wrong with combining 2 & 4 into one 
> alternative. 
> 
> Mostly since this is not a super common repeat pattern, I expect that 
> combining 2 & 4 into one alternative would raise some eyebrows and require 
> some clarification in rehearsal, if this is a piece with multiple musicians.
> 
> Whereas separating them into two alternatives would make it obvious what the 
> repeat structure is.

FYI, here are two versions with the repeat combined fro visual comarison. In 
the first, there is a terminating repeat sign, in the second none.

repeatCombinedA.pdf
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