Help required re: whether to use double barline

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Hector Pascal
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Post by Hector Pascal » Tue May 14, 2019 1:19 am

Hi all,

On my woodwind part, the music go along and then gets to a bar above which I have the direction :

D.S. al Coda

Should I put a double bar line at the end of that bar to further emphasise that the player loops back instead of proceeding onwards to the next bar?

Cheers,
Hector.


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zuill
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Post by zuill » Tue May 14, 2019 2:08 am

That's the way I've always seen it done.

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Post by miker » Tue May 14, 2019 3:46 am

Anything that helps! I’ve even seen “to measure xx”
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Post by Hector Pascal » Tue May 14, 2019 7:15 am

Thanks, zuill and mike. I added the double bar line and it looks very good to the eye.
Cheers,
Hector.

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