Hi all,
I'm writing out an arrangement with several repeated strains, and the instrumentation changes slightly on the repeat. So for an instrument which only comes in on the repeat, is it better to put '1x tacet' or '2x only'? And is there a standard as to whether this should be roman or italics or bold?
This really is me talking, for some reason my emailer thinks it's a quote:
I prefer "2nd X only" rather than "2x only", as it won't be confused with "Two times only", and "Tacet 1st X" is a negative, which seems to take more brain power to process.
To really make it jump out, I use Arial Black 20 point or 18 point. This is a vital road map direction, and it can't be in-your-face enough for me. For the same reason I increase the size of segnos and coda targets to 26 or 28 point, and DS al Coda texts and the like are 16 or 18 point and bracketted with the special Jazz Font enclosures on two and a half sides.
Call me weird if you like, but I also prefer "mute out" to "open" ever since I had to take a mute out where a repeat started, and only realised thirty bars later that "open" referred to the repeat, not the mute. Unambiguous is the key for me.
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