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Tosca
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Post by Tosca » Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:28 am

I'm transcribing music in Finale 2012 on Windows. I'm looking for a symbol I've often seen used in brass band music, which means "this bar is exactly the same as the preceding bar". It's not a repeat, but a way of avoiding having to write out that bar of music however many times. The symbol is a / with a dot above and below it. Does Finale have it?

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Post by John Ruggero » Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:04 am

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Post by miker » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:36 pm

Why is that sign still used? It certainly made sense when you were hand copying music, but why now, when you can simply copy and paste?
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:51 pm

You can save a lot of space by using One-Bar Repeat or Two-Bar Repeat.

Saving space can be essential in parts for instruments where both hands are in use.
You need to plan page turns at places where there are rest measures.
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Post by MikeHalloran » Mon Apr 17, 2017 4:14 pm

miker wrote:Why is that sign still used? It certainly made sense when you were hand copying music, but why now, when you can simply copy and paste?
I can only guess that you don't play Broadway style shows. Counting the repeated measures during play is just as important as counting rests in he pit.
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Post by motet » Mon Apr 17, 2017 4:27 pm

It can also be easier to read the repeat-measure symbol than to read the notes and discover they're the same. Of course, it can be abused in the opposite direction, repeating a measure too complicated to easily reproduce.

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