Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

[Robin Bannister]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 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). 
> 
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
> > 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... 



This is surely not the whole story. 
The repeated music |: to :| is then not congruent with the lyrics. 
In a song with several verses the first verse is ok, 
but subsequent verses get split. 
Their upbeat lyrics are off somewhere on another page. 
But for easy reading, these should be up front, especially if words get split.

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1. Close your | eyes and I'll ...

              | 2. tend that I'm ...

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1. Es war schon | dunkel, als ...

                | 2. zählten sie ...
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Cheers,
Robin