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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2008-06-28 22:12:17
Message-ID: 200806290012.17713.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2008 schrieb Patrick Horgan:
>  Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> In my experience, it's fairly uncommon in printed music to have this kind
> of different durations in the two alternatives, so I don't think that it's
> common enough to deserve a specific example in the manual. You may want to
> submit it to the LSR, though.
>
>  It's not that uncommon.  I've seen it in choral music fairly regularly
> through the years. 

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).


> 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...

Cheers,
Reinhold


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["pickup-volta-choral.ly" (text/x-lilypond)]

\version "2.11.50"

\score {
  \context Staff <<
    \context Voice = "Soprano" \relative c'' { 
      \partial 8 c8 |
      \repeat volta 2 { c4 c c c }
      \alternative { {c4 c r4 r8 c8 } {c4 c r2 }}
      c1 
      % etc.
    }
  >>
}

["pickup-volta-choral.pdf" (application/pdf)]

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