A B * B A structure - how best to represent it in a score?
I like keeping musical scores compact and I'm trying to write up an arrangement of Girl from Ipanema but it has an A, B, instrumental, B, A structure and I'm trying work out how best to represent that using repeats and Da Capo's etc. Suggestions using Jazz notations or other non-classical approaches are definitely welcome.
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Could this structure fulfill your wish?
![AB-Instr-BA.png]( "AB-Instr-BA.png")
In reply to Could this structure fulfill… by HildeK
Thanks HildeK I think that fits the bill really well, though I wonder if there isn't a 'simpler' approach using non-classical notation.
In reply to Thanks HildeK I think that… by georgeleach
I don't know very much about the possibilities of notation. If you know other variants or how you would put a "simpler" approach on paper, then show us. If your variation is logical and you can recognize the flow, then you can most likely write it in MuseScore.
With things like this, you always have to make sure that every musician can recognize the sequence without having to explain it to them at length. Keeping it simple is usually the better way.
In reply to Could this structure fulfill… by HildeK
I'm astonished. I had thought that it would hit the D.C. al Fine and immediately go back to the beginning, without ever playing the Instrumental section. But I tried it and it works. How does MuS know to perform the D.C. only the second time through?
In reply to I'm astonished. I had… by TheHutch
It is located in the middle of a repeat section. Then these are performed first and only then the D.C. al Fine.
As you can see in my example, there is a superfluous segno sign (I forgot to delete it) left over from another approach: D.S. in the last measure and as written the D.C. al Fine. But then exactly what you thought happens, at D.C. al Fine it jumps back to the beginning.