>>>>> "jc" == jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jc> One thing that I wondered about a while back, but didn't get any
jc> response from: I've seen music that uses a "broken bar", in the form
jc> of short vertical dashes (either between the staff lines or crossing
jc> them). This is useful, for instance, in an urtext edition in which
jc> you'd like to cut the bars in half for readability, but you still
jc> want to indicate which bar lines were in the original. It's also used
jc> in Balkan and Middle Eastern music to break up long bars in complex
jc> rhythms, again for readability.
I've also seen it in rhythmically complex "classical" music. For
instance, a 7/4 bar that can be read as a 4/4 bar followed by a 3/4
bar will have a broken bar line in the middle.
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