Thanks for your thoughtful reply:
- How long is the repeated music?
Rather short. The more verses, the shorter the music. Each piece is only 3 or 4 systems.
- Is space/paper at a premium for you?
No.
- Do the verses have many scansion discrepancies which will require cue notes?
No, none (at least I haven't seen any yet).
- Will the singers be sight-reading from the page? reading from the page with rehearsal? learning from the page but singing from memory?
Probably the second.
Given these, I think I'd go with my original instinct: three repeats with three or two verses on each.
Actually, my idea was to do what I've seen in editions of Dowland's lute songs: i.e. not repeat the music, but give the text of the following verses separately, after the music. The music being fairly simple, I figure that the singers will know long before they know the text. Do I gather that you don't find this a good idea?
I think that's a fine idea. It's a perfectly reasonable solution in many contexts. You know the context better than I do.
mdl
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