Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music

[ptoye]

What - no-one? Am I the only one playing minimalist music round here?


ptoye wrote
> I'm trying to engrave a highly repetitive piano part using repeats as much
> as possible to save page-turns, but I need to display the bar numbers as
> if the repeats were written out (other parts don't repeat). It seems to me
> that this raises three issues, to none of which have I found a solution in
> the manuals.
> 
> 1) Notating the number of repeats automatically . One can do a markup of
> "3×" on the repeat bar, so it's not a major problem, but Lilypond doesn't
> seem to do this automatically, which is a bit of a shame.
> 
> 2) Adjusting the bar count to take the repeated bars into account. For
> example, if an 8-bar phrase is repeated 4 times, the bar count after the
> end of the section is 33, rather than 9. Again, this can be done by
> setting the bar number, but it would be useful to have a computer do the
> arithmetic.
> 
> 3) Displaying the multiple bar numbers. In the above example, displaying
> something like "1-9-17-25". Without this, rehearsals will be a bit
> fraught!
>  
> Any help gratefully received,
> 
> Peter
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