Questions tagged [repeats]
For questions about repeated sections of music. Volta repeats (marked with repeat barlines), DC repeats, Simile repeats, as well as the meaning, notation, and implementation of these are all on topic.
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Can (Dal) Segno and (Dal) Segno Segno appear on the same bar?
This is a follow-up question to my previous question.
I have made a transcription using Guitar Pro 8 of a song with the following structure:
Intro, A, B, A, B, A, Coda
Guitar Pro 8 outputs and plays ...
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How to notate two nested repeat loops (||: and :||) that finish on the same repeat finish sign :||?
I have made a transcription of a song with the following structure:
Intro, A, B, A, B, A, Coda
The score that I created is the following (the content of the bars was replaced by whole notes for ...
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Lilypond : Multi bar, multi repeat in one measure
Following Lilypond: Single bar, multiple repeat, I want this for a multi measure repeat.
I'm converted (./.) to (.//.) with
percperc = \markup\concat{
\raise #0.5 \musicglyph #"dots.dot"
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Unnecessary and confusing bass clef in Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, Why?
I just played Mozart's Fantasia in D minor and I noticed at the Allegretto section in D major, an unnecessary and confusing bass clef. So I looked on IMSLP to see if any of the editions of Mozart's ...
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What do these symbols mean?
This is part of Hasse's "Mea Tormenta, Properate":
Figure 1. 3 staves of handwritten music. The top staff is in treble clef and the key of B flat. The second staff is also in treble clef ...
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Is there a definitive notation for multiple repeats?
Is there a definitive notation for repeating a section more than twice? Say you want a section to be played four times. I have mostly seen this:
x4
𝄆 .... 𝄇
meaning "play four times"...
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Adding special text, signs, symbols, and marks, to LilyPond scores
What is the best way to add special text, signs, symbols, and marks for multi-measure rests, rehearsal marks, sengo, and coda symbols, in LilyPond code?
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What does this notation mean above the staff? [duplicate]
I'm learning piano and music theory. Today I came across this notation - a bracket line spanning across the width of the staff, and a number on the left. Could someone please tell me what it means? ...
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How to notate a Da Capo al Fine and fade (or Repeat and Fade)?
Short version
How would I notate a repeat and fade in a music sheet, for the entire piece? Is there a standard way to do it?
Long version
I've been transcribing a piece of music of a SNES game, and ...
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Repeat sign without a match
In Fernando Sor's Op 44 No 7, what is the purpose of the repeat sign indicated by the arrow?
There isn't a matching sign before the end of the piece, so how am I supposed to interpret it? (The picture ...
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Interpreting the repeat signs in Handel's passacaglia (HWV 432)
In the urtext edition (page 84 of the pdf) that I found on IMSLP it looks as if the first period is repeated and then... the rest of the piece, without that first period, is played twice? That doesn't ...
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Meaning of :/: with a 2 above
I don't fully understand this symbol. I know it means to repeat the bar, but how many times? Normally I'm used to the one slash and two dots in a bar, which I know means to repeat.
Can anyone help ...
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How do folk musicians count repeats?
I am trained as a classical musician. I'm fast at reading standard notation, counting rests, all of that. Recently I played bass for a children's folk dance event. The music was mostly European ...
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Lilypond: Lyrics variants for repeated music
I am currently dealing with a piece of vocal music that has sections which repeat musically but have different lyrics variants for the first and second time of the repeated segments.
Consider the ...
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Beginning a repeat with a tied note in guitar pro 6
I'm trying to tab out a song in guitar pro 6 and I have a section that repeats. The section begins with a tied note from the previous measure, then when it repeats I want the last note of the last ...
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Formatting First and Second Repetitions
Anytime I'm formatting a score with first and second repetitions I struggle on how should I write them in the score. I tend to do 4 bars for each staff (not counting pick up bars) unless the melody's ...
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Simple repeat notification
Trying to script in musical notation a section of music that plays repeatedly within a tune without writing it out multiple times and I'm getting confused with some of the notation symbols. In the ...
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How to end song at `fine` but after repeating?
I'm transcribing guitar song to tab but facing a problem. As the song has repetitions I wrote tab like this and expect to go like 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2 1 2 but actually it is 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2; song ...
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Is there a name for this type of conclusion technique?
The name of this song is called "感情の摩天楼 (Emotional Skyscraper) ～ Cosmic Mind, and I have been obsessed with this song since I first heard it years ago, mainly because of how much the way it uses ...
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How to place a number by a sustain bracket to indicate variation in lilypond?
I have the following markup which gives the output below:
\version "2.22.2"
\language "english"
global = {
\key df \major
\numericTimeSignature
\time 2/4
}
right = \fixed c'...
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Multi-bar repeats in MuseScore
How do you denote a multi-bar repetition in one hand for piano in MuseScore 3?
The background is as follows. Imagine having a 4 bar pattern with your left hand, which repeats through your entire song ...
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Unrecognized signs near piano chords [duplicate]
What does the 1. and 2. prefix before the chord mean (what special meaning 1.G or 2.G has over a regular G chord?)
What does the 3 lines (marked in green arrow) mean?
What does the 2 lines (marked ...
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How can I use different types of repeats in my lead sheet?
Happy Friday!
I'm trying to draft a lead sheet that captures the structure of a song I'm working on in a single page. I just can't find a solution. I hope to get better at notating repeats and ...
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LilyPond: Indicate alternate endings
Using LilyPond, I would like to indicate alternate endings to the piece I am engraving; an "Optional 'Screen Gems' Ending" which is 2 measures long or another "Low Fat" ending (not ...
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How to indicate articulation on only one volte of a repeat?
A source I’m transcribing has a piece of music repeated, with an articulation applied only once. E.g.,
A B C D | A B E F | G F E D | A B C D | A B E> F |
or, using Lilypond notation,
\fixed c' {
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Lilypond: Single bar, multiple repeat
Drum charts are often very repetitive, so frequently a bar will have a repeat count indicated above it. Examples shown here:
(from http://www.play-drums.com/Pad/lesson11-repeats.asp)
I've been able ...
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Proper use of D.C. al Coda with repeat voltas
I have a score template like this...
I expect this to be the performance by measure numbers and rehearsal marks...
A
1-8, 1-7, 9
B
10-25
C
26-33, 26-31, 34-38
D.C. al Coda
A
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What's the (italian or classical) name of a single slash repeat?
I know, the "percent" sign, to repeat the previous bar, is also called due volte. See here:
taken from here.
However, I'm looking for the (classical name of a) single slash, like here in ...
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Custom dynamic mark
I am in the process of engraving a sheet of piano music. I wrote a custom dynamic mark — the look of which I am very happy with, but the behavior, not totally. It is the following:
mff = \tweak ...
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Notation: How to notate a note at the start of the first bar that is only played during the first repeat?
I have read this answer, which relates to a different problem.
I want to know how to include a note to be played at the start of my first bar (ie: within the bar, not prior to it), but only during the ...
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How to notate repeat section for lead sheet [duplicate]
I'm having trouble writing a compact lead sheet for a song with this form:
A A B A B C B B
How to write it with repeat sign without make it too confusing? Thank you.
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Drum kit notation for crashes at section starts
What is the best way to notate crashes for drum kit, that happen only occasionally, while the rest of the rhythm pattern remains unchanged? Or only at the beginning of a section, but with the rest of ...
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How can I notate multiple repeats?
I'm currently using MuseScore for transcribing my drum notation and it's working great - except I can't seem to find a repeat for a section to repeat more than once.
How can I notate multiple repeats?
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Octave changes on 2nd time
Suppose a piece of music contain two subsequent parts than differ only by octaves (say, second part is entirely 8va). Is there any way to show this in sheet music, except by writing each part ...
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Is the volta ONLY used to mark unique end of a section or can it mark unique verse content within a section?
I have a three verse, two chord song:
Verses 1 and 2 are
a b c
a b c
d d e
Verse three is
a b c
a b c
a f g
d d e
Without writing everything serially, within a repeated section with lyrics listed ...
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How to indicate that a part of the song should be repeated only the second time around? [duplicate]
I have a song that I am transcribing, and it has a verse that repeats.
The verse starts at the very beginning of the song and is 12 measures long.
The second time the verse is played, it is played ...
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"First ending" has a notation "2nd time R.H. 8va"
In a simple piano book I'm using (Jumbo Easy Piano Songbook: 200 Songs for All Occasions - Hal Leonard Corp.), one of the songs (The Entertainer - Scott Joplin) that has a first and second ending, ...
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Notation for 8va on the repeat
In piano music sometimes there is a section that is repeated, and on the repeat one (or both) hands are to play an octave up (or down).
I've seen this notated in English in the following form:
2nd ...
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Raise or lower position of percent repeat counters by voice in Lilypond?
There is a very similar question; however, I cannot use its answer because it sets the \override PercentRepeatCounter.Y-offset = #-3 inside the \layout of a score block.
I need the ability to leave ...
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Priority of Da Coda vs. Repeat sign
There are three different cases I can think of, with a Da Coda embedded within repeat signs. My question for these three cases is the same:
Do you jump to the Coda right when you reach the Da Coda or ...
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What does this wavy line across a barline mean?
My daughter is playing Ocarina of Time, in an easy piano format.
The following sign appears at the end of the song:
Usually the song tells her to repeat and fade out but I have never seen this symbol ...
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How would I notate this custom repeat scenario with sheet music?
I am composing a song. It has 8 measures in the verse and 8 in chorus. I also have an 8 measure instrumental section that I would like to include, after the second verse and before the second chorus....
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LilyPond: How do I align markup text with #"scripts.segno"?
At the end of my score, I'd like to have a "Da Capo al Segno", with a nice symbol for segno.
I'm almost there:
DC = {
\once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-...
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Lilypond: how to engrave a double bar at "Fine" when a \repeat statement follows
Under Lilypond 2.18, the following does not work as expected:
\version "2.19.45"
{
g b c r-"Fine" \bar "|." \break
\tempo "Trio"
\repeat volta 2 {
c a f f }
}
The double bar at "Fine" fails to ...
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LilyPond - Repeat with Partial Measure at the End
This demonstrates the problem:
\relative c' {
c4 d e f
d e
\repeat volta 2 {
f g
a, b c d
}
\alternative {
{
e2
}
{
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Have tie extend past end of music in lilypond
I'm writing out a short snippet of music and would like to have a tie that extends past the end; How can I do this in LilyPond?
Here's what I have now:
I'd like to indicate that a tie goes back to ...
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Unmatched pairs for LilyPond ties and slurs
In LilyPond, ties and slurs are expected to come in matched pairs. I keep coming across situations where a tie or a slur aren't matched. For example:
As demonstrated in the MWE below, it is possible ...
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LilyPond vertical spacing, alternate endings, and chords
I am typesetting a score that contains alternate endings on a volta repeat, as well as chords (using LilyPond 2.17.97). By default, the following MWE:
song = {
\repeat volta 2 {
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Is there a way to notate alternative transitions between 2 sections of music?
I'm writing out an original song I recently recorded because I need to provide both the sheet music and an audio recording for college applications.
It would be okay just to submit what I wrote out ...
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How to insert cautionary key signature before repeat mark using Sibelius 7
I'm arranging wind parts for the following song (excerpt below). This is the end of a repeated section that starts in D major and changes to F major halfway through. So, the repeat mark at the end of ...
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